Cable Crunch

How to do it

1. Kneel below a high pulley with a rope attachment and hold the rope beside your head.
2. Set your hips back and keep them fixed - they do not move during the set.
3. Crunch down by rounding your spine, bringing your elbows toward your thighs.
4. Squeeze hard at the bottom.
5. Return under control. If your hips travel, you are doing a hip hinge, not a crunch.

Muscles it trains

Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.

Other ways to train this

• Twisting Hanging Knee Raises Pull-up barIntermediate
• Hanging Leg Raises Pull-up barProfessional
• Machine Crunch Machines
• Russian Twist Dumbbells
• Cable Woodchop Cable machine
• Plank Bodyweight
• Ab Wheel Rollout Ab wheelProfessional
• Crunches Bodyweight
• Lying Leg Raises Bodyweight
• Decline Sit-Ups BodyweightBench
• Bicycle Crunches Bodyweight
• Side Plank Bodyweight

Photos and form cues from free-exercise-db, released into the public domain.