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Reverse crunch
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
- Norwegian Revers crunch
- Swedish Omvänd crunch
- Danish Omvendt crunch
- German Umgekehrter Crunch
- Spanish Crunch inverso
- Italian Crunch inverso
- Portuguese Abdominal infra
- Russian Обратные скручивания
- French Crunch inversé
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