Difficulty: Medium
Impact Level: Normal
Target Body Parts: abs, lower back
How to do Reach Ups
Back to ExercisesInstructions
Lay down on a mat or a towel on a flat surface. Draw your legs in by bending your knees to 90 degrees. Reach up above your shoulders with your arms. From this start position, draw your belly button down towards the floor to engage your core, then contract your stomach muscles (abs) to raise up to a crunch position and reach your arms up as high as possible. Then lower back down to the floor and repeat.
Keep your feet on the floor through out the movement and avoid the temptation to put your feet under something or asking a buddy to anchor your feet so that you can use your legs to help pull you up through the sitting up phase.
How to make Reach Ups easier
Try our Abdominal Crunches first as a way to build up to this exercise.
How to make Reach Ups more challenging
From here move on to Twisting Crunches and Elevated Crunches to progress further.
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