Heel Taps
🌀 Obliques & Waist · updated September 2026
⏱ 45 sec🔁 3 sets of 20📶 beginner🌿 low-impact
Targets: obliques, upper abs
How to do it
- 1Lie on your back, knees bent, feet flat, arms by your sides.
- 2Lift the shoulder blades slightly off the floor.
- 3Reach your right hand to tap your right heel, then left hand to left heel.
- 4Keep the shoulders hovering the whole set.
Form tips
- • Slide sideways, don't sit up
- • The hover is the exercise — stay lifted
- • Move heels closer to make it harder
Common mistakes
- • Dropping the shoulders between taps
- • Turning it into a neck exercise
- • Racing — slow side-to-side burn wins
