Abs · Body weight · Intermediate
How to do Crunch (Hands Overhead)
A crunch with your arms reaching straight overhead. Moving the arms further from your hips makes your abs work harder to curl the same distance, so it's a step up from a standard crunch without adding any weight.
- Primary muscle
- Abs
- Also works
- Hip flexors
- Equipment
- Body weight
- Level
- Intermediate
- Category
- Abs
How to do Crunch (Hands Overhead), step by step
- Lie flat on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the ground.
- Extend your arms straight above your head.
- Engaging your abs, lift your upper body off the ground, curling forward towards your knees.
- Pause for a moment at the top, then slowly lower your upper body back down to the starting position.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Muscles worked
Crunch (Hands Overhead) works your abs as the main mover, with help from your hip flexors.
Track Crunch (Hands Overhead) in SPLYT
Crunch (Hands Overhead) 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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