Abs · Body weight · Beginner
How to do Alternate Heel Touchers
Alternate heel touchers is a bodyweight exercise targeting the abdominal muscles, particularly the obliques. It involves lying on your back, lifting your shoulders, and reaching side to side to touch your heels, engaging your core throughout.
- Primary muscle
- Abs
- Also works
- Obliques
- Equipment
- Body weight
- Level
- Beginner
- Category
- Abs
How to do Alternate Heel Touchers, step by step
- Lie flat on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the ground.
- Extend your arms straight out to the sides, parallel to the ground.
- Engaging your abs, lift your shoulders off the ground and reach your right hand towards your right heel.
- Return to the starting position and repeat on the left side, reaching your left hand towards your left heel.
- Continue alternating sides for the desired number of repetitions.
Muscles worked
Alternate Heel Touchers works your abs as the main mover, with help from your obliques.
Track Alternate Heel Touchers in SPLYT
Alternate Heel Touchers is already in SPLYT’s exercise library. Log your sets, reps and weight on iPhone or Apple Watch, with last time’s weights already filled in.
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