Alternate Heel Touches

ALTERNATE HEEL TOUCHES

The alternate heel touches exercise targets your core muscles in both flexion and lateral flexion. Crunch up high enough to get the shoulder blades off the floor and then crunch to the side as you reach to touch your heels. Maintain the half crunch as you alternate to touch your other heel.

Muscles Involved:

• Rectus Abdominis

• External Oblique

• Internal Oblique

• Transversus Abdominis

Related Conditions:

• Strength and Conditioning

• Diastasis recti

• mechanical low back pain

• sports hernia

• oblique strain

• superficial front line dysfunction

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