Exercise library / Core
Decline sit-up
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.
Secondary: Hip flexors.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Sit-ups på skråbenk
- Svenska Situps på lutande bänk
- Dansk Sit-ups på skråbænk
- Deutsch Sit-ups auf der Schrägbank
- Español Abdominales en banco declinado
- Italiano Sit-up su panca declinata
- Português Abdominal no banco declinado
- Русский Подъёмы туловища на наклонной скамье
- Français Redressements assis (banc décliné)
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