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Strength exercises Β· Core
Cable crunch
Difficulty Core stability
How to perform it
Kneeling crunch under a cable: hold the rope by your head and curl your chest toward your pelvis while your hips stay in place. Unlike a floor crunch you can load the abs progressively by adding weight.
Video demo
Equipment
- Cable machine / Pull-up bar pulley systemMachine
Muscles worked
Front
Back
Muscles and artwork credits
- External obliques
- Internal obliques (not on the surface map)
- Rectus abdominis
- Transverse abdominis (not on the surface map)
Related exercises
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Crunch variations
Exercise family Β· pattern: Core stability
1 family Β· 5 variationsDifficulty
- Cable crunchCurrently viewing
- Decline crunch
- Reverse crunch
- Swiss ball crunch
- Decline sit-up
Difficulty describes how demanding the execution is. It is not a recommended training order.