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Crunches
Core · Bodyweight
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Abs.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Crunches
- Swedish Crunches
- Danish Crunches
- German Crunches
- Spanish Crunch abdominal
- Italian Crunch
- Portuguese Abdominal supra
- Russian Скручивания
- French Crunchs
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