Obliques - help!

[Stef]

I am having some real problems with obliques exercises. When I do side crunches I have real difficulty keeping my feet/legs on the floor and can hardly get my shoulders off the floor.

I train quite a lot but have always had problems balancing when doing crunches/jack knifes and so forth.

Can anyone reccommend a good obliques exercise that I might find easier, or tell me what I'm doing wrong with side crunches?

Thanks

 

[newf]

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[LeiYunFat]

Don't forget to get some stretches and flexibility in there. Sounds like some range of motion would do you good. I find it hard to stay balanced when I do side crunches because I keep falling over, lol.

 

[ballast]

Can anyone reccommend a good obliques exercise that I might find easier, or tell me what I'm doing wrong with side crunches?

Have you tried side planks?It's a static exercise, meaning there is no movement involved.You hold a certain position and contract the target muscles for a specified period of time.To do a side plank, start by lying on your right side on the floor, now place your right elbow/forearm on the ground and raise yourself up so that the only parts of your body touching the floor are your right foot/ankle and your right elbow/forearm.Hold this position and tense the right obliques for 30 seconds, switch sides and repeat.