Bicycle Crunch
🌀 Obliques & Waist · updated September 2026
⏱ 45 sec🔁 3 sets of 20📶 intermediate🌿 low-impact
Targets: obliques + upper and lower abs together
How to do it
- 1Lie back, hands behind ears, legs in tabletop.
- 2Bring your right elbow toward your left knee while extending the right leg.
- 3Switch sides in a smooth pedaling motion.
- 4Rotate from the ribs — the elbow follows the shoulder, not the neck.
Form tips
- • Slow pedaling beats fast flailing
- • Fully extend the straight leg each time
- • Keep the shoulder blades hovering
Common mistakes
- • Pulling the neck sideways
- • Elbows flapping without torso rotation
- • Racing the reps
