Decline Bench Crunches
When you raise your body off the declined bench breathe out and exhale.
Decline bench crunches. Keeping your neck neutral and lower back pressed against the bench exhale as you raise your head and shoulders off the bench by flexing your abdomen. Lie down on a decline bench and secure your legs. Therefore it engages your core in a more intense manner than any other oblique crunch variations.
Push the small of your back down into the bench and start to roll your shoulders off it. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Put your hands on either side of your head keeping your elbows in.
Push down forcefully with your lower back while you contract your abdominals. To protect your lower back press it down against the bench. Perform the decline abdominal crunches on a decline bench and adjust the bench s decline until you are getting the maximum tension in your ab muscles while completing the movement.
Decline crunches are beneficial as an isolation exercise if you re working on building a six pack one of the main muscles worked during decline crunches is the rectus abdominis known as. Inhale as you lower your head and shoulders back to the starting position and relax your abdomen. Eliminates the tendency to use momentum to complete the movement.
Although some variations of this exercise may require other types of equipment and some none at all what we are going to discuss in this article is the one that requires an incline bench. The decline oblique crunch is an easy to do variation performed on a decline bench. For the decline crunch you only need an incline bench.
How to do decline crunch. Hold for a count of two. Be sure to control your breathing when you are performing the exercise.