Mark Hayward Personal Training- Aylesbury, Bucks- Boot Camps- Personal Training- Princes Risborough, Milton Keynes, High Wycombe, Winslow, Thame, Stone, Bierton, Dunstable, Beds- Mark Hayward Advanced Personal Trainer

Area Worked

Anterior torso

Muscles Worked

• Rectus abdominus
• Internal and external obliques

How to Perform Safely

• Lie face up on an exercise mat, have your spine in neutral and your knees bent to 90 degrees.
• Place you hands across your chest.
• Exhale and bring you shoulder blade two inches off the ground, by flexing the spine.
• Keep the gap between your chin and chest the same distance, and neck straight.

• Inhale and slowly lower back down, keeping the tension in your abdominals and shoulders very slightly off the ground.
• Look forward.
• Keep a fist sized gap between chin and chest.
• Always control the movement.

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