Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists

A beginner isolation strength exercise that works the abs, using a cable machine.

Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists — Starting position Starting position
Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists — End position End position
Difficulty Beginner
Type Strength
Equipment Cable Machine
Primary Muscle Abs
AI Rep Counting Log manually

How to Do Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists

  1. Connect a rope attachment to a high pulley cable and position a mat on the floor in front of it.
  2. Grab the rope with both hands and kneel approximately two feet back from the tower.
  3. Position the rope behind your head with your hands by your ears.
  4. Keep your hands in the same place, contract your abs and pull downward on the rope in a crunching movement until your elbows reach your knees.
  5. Pause briefly at the bottom and rise up in a slow and controlled manner until you reach the starting position.
  6. Repeat the same downward movement until you're halfway down, at which time you'll begin rotating one of your elbows to the opposite knee.
  7. Again, pause briefly at the bottom and rise up in a slow and controlled manner until you reach the starting position.
  8. Repeat the same movement as before, but alternate the other elbow to the opposite knee.
  9. Continue this series of movements to failure.

Muscles Worked

Front

Primary

Where Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists does most of its work.

Alternatives to Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists

10 movements that train the same primary muscle, closest substitutes first — same kind of training, then variations of the movement itself, then a similar difficulty.

  1. 1 Decline Oblique Crunch

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  2. 2 Bosu Ball Cable Crunch With Side Bends

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  3. 3 Cable Crunch

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  4. 4 Cable Reverse Crunch

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  5. 5 Cable Russian Twists

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  6. 6 Cable Seated Crunch

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  7. 7 Cross-Body Crunch

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  8. 8 Crunch - Hands Overhead

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  9. 9 Crunch - Legs On Exercise Ball

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  10. 10 Decline Reverse Crunch

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Frequently Asked Questions

What muscles do kneeling cable crunch with alternating oblique twists work?

Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists primarily works the abs.

What equipment do I need for kneeling cable crunch with alternating oblique twists?

Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists uses cable machine.

Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists: is it suitable for beginners?

Yes. Kneeling Cable Crunch With Alternating Oblique Twists is rated beginner. Movements you can learn in a session, with a low skill floor and a forgiving failure mode.

What can I do instead of kneeling cable crunch with alternating oblique twists?

Decline Oblique Crunch, Bosu Ball Cable Crunch With Side Bends, Cable Crunch train the same primary muscles and are listed with 7 more alternatives above.

Can Fitnit count my kneeling cable crunch with alternating oblique twists reps automatically?

Not automatically yet. Fitnit's AI rep counting covers push-ups, squats, dumbbell curls, crunches and pull-ups today; kneeling cable crunch with alternating oblique twists can be logged manually in the app, and tracked movements are added over time.

Photographs and step-by-step instructions from free-exercise-db, a public-domain exercise dataset. Muscle mapping and alternatives by Fitnit.

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