Reverse curls work the lower half of your rectus abdominis, so from navel down to the pubic bone and back. So it's kind of that little poochy area that tends to loose a lot of elasticity that you're really trying to focus on. It's all one muscle that works together, but you can put a focus on just that lower half. So roll down one vertebrae at a time. Take a moment to just let your spine get used to the surface that you're working on, so you've got nice, neutral, pelvic posture, soft neck, shoulder blades are nice and still, and we're going to take our feet up in the air. Now if you need to maintain this 90 here, as long as the hip flexor is out of the picture, but if you can extend, we're going to cross one foot over the other. Now we're not going to think of bringing the knees together because we want to keep a nice space between the hips and the pelvis, and then we're just going to think of curling pubic to navel, and release. It's a small movement, you're not going to see a lot of momentum going on here. Crunch and exhale as you contract, inhale back down so you can get fresh oxygen working back into the muscle before you try to contract again, and exhale. Push like you're pushing that ceiling away from you, and release. Again, you're trying to pull everything together, it's not how far we come over because then I'm working with my back more than I am focusing right here. So if I really want to focus on just that area between the pubic bone and the navel, I've got to keep it small and controlled. Try working up to about 10 reps with right foot over left, and then stretch in between if you need to and cross left over right, and curl, crunch, breathe, inhale, down. You really shouldn't see a lot of movement. You see movement as a result of contraction in that small area that you're trying to focus on.
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