Tuck-Up
The Tuck-up is a variation of the sitting V-Up exercise. It engages transverse abdominis and hip flexors in the compression motion, but reduces the lever load for a V-Up, making it less challenging.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Hips
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
Tuck-Up
- Start by lying flat on your back, with your arms overhead and feet together. Point your toes and engage your quads.
- To initiate the tuck-up, lift up your arms, trunk, and legs at the same time.
- Sit your torso up tall, using your core and hips to bring your knees to your chest.
- You should now be balancing on your sit bones, with your knees bent and pulled in as close to your chest as possible.
- Pause momentarily before lowering back to the starting position with control.
- Your eventual goal is to make full thigh-to-chest contact.
- Relax momentarily as you lay flat between repetitions.
- Exercise: Straddle-Up
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Hips
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: V-Up
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Hips
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
