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Toe Touch

Also called Toe Touches, Toe Reaches, Lying Toe Touch

How to do it

Lie flat on your back with your legs raised straight toward the ceiling and your arms extended overhead. Brace your abs and crunch up, reaching your hands toward your toes as you lift your shoulder blades off the floor. Pause at the top, then lower under control back to the start.

Setup

Lie supine with legs vertical (knees soft, not locked) and arms reaching up past your ears.

Where you should feel it

A hard contraction through the upper rectus abdominis as you curl your shoulders toward your toes.

When to use it

A bodyweight abs finisher or superset filler to build rectus-abdominis endurance; scale by bending the knees to make it easier.

Other core movements