Cable Crunch Guide
- Exercise Type: Isolation - focuses on targeting and isolating specific muscle groups, allowing for targeted muscle development.
- Targeted Muscle Groups:
- primary: abs
- secondary: obliques
- tertiary: transverse abdominis, erector spinae
- quaternary: adductor, gluteal
How to perform?
Cable crunches are a popular exercise targeting the abdominal muscles, specifically the rectus abdominis and the obliques. This exercise can also work the external and internal obliques, as well as the transverse abdominis and the erector spinae. The gluteus maximus and adductor magnus may also act as stabilizing muscles during this exercise. It is an isolation exercise.
Variations
Side Crunches
isolationDecline Bench Crunches
isolationHanging Leg Raises
isolationLeg Raises With Exercise Ball
isolationKnee Raises
isolationKnee Hip Raise On Parallel Bars
isolationWeighted Decline Bench Crunches
isolationDecline Bench Crunches
isolationWeighted Decline Bench Crunches
isolationIncline Crunch
isolationCross Crunches
isolationSide Crunches
isolationTucked crunches
isolationBicycle Crunches
isolationDecline Reverse Crunches
isolationReverse Crunch
isolation
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