Doing Abdominal Crunches The Right Way

Abdominal crunches can help you keep your core muscles strong - but only if you know the right way to do them. Fitness expert Jonathan Cane explains how to get the most out of your crunches.

Here’s how to get the most out of your abdominal crunches.....

By slowing the movement down and eliminating the momentum and eliminating all the flailing of the arms, it's making the exercise harder to do and focusing all the energy on the muscles.

Eliminate the space between your lower back and the floor. That's protecting your lower back and that's always going to be the starting point for any abdominal exercise.

You're going to slow everything down and keep the elbows nice and wide, keep space, thinking as if he has a tennis ball between your chin and your chest and then your going to come up a little bit higher than you usally do, all in a slow, controlled movement. Three seconds up, pausing at the top, three seconds down and, again, you see the elbows stay nice and wide, space between the chin and the chest as a result you will got daylight under you shoulder blades at the top of the range of motion "the shadow of your back will show on the floor".