Hanging Oblique Crunch
Trains the obliques. No equipment needed. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
Technique
How to do the Hanging Oblique Crunch
- Hang from a pull-up bar with your hands shoulder-width apart, palms facing forward or towards each other. Allow your body to hang straight with your feet off the floor.
- Engage your core and, keeping your legs together, bend your knees and lift them towards your right elbow, twisting your torso to engage your obliques.
- Raise your knees as high as comfortably possible, aiming to bring them towards your elbow.
- Slowly lower your legs back to the starting position with control. Repeat the movement, this time lifting your knees towards your left elbow. Alternate sides for the desired number of repetitions.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Avoid swinging your body; use controlled movements to lift and lower your legs.
- Focus on steady breathing, exhaling as you lift your knees and twist, and inhaling as you lower them.
- Ensure your grip on the bar is secure to prevent slipping.
Muscles worked
What Hanging Oblique Crunch trains
In the programs
None of our programs use the Hanging Oblique Crunch
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a obliques exercise that is, there are 21 on the Obliques page.
Substitutes
Swap Hanging Oblique Crunch for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run the Hanging Oblique Crunch for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.