Negative crunch
Abs Bodyweight
How to do it
- 1Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
- 2Place your hands behind your head with elbows flared out.
- 3Engage your abs and slowly lift your upper body off the floor, curling forward until your torso reaches a 45‑degree angle.
- 4Pause briefly at the top, then lower your upper body slowly back to the starting position.
- 5Repeat for the desired number of reps.
More abs exercises
- Sit-up with arms on chestBodyweight
- Curl-upBodyweight
- Hanging straight twisting leg hip raiseBodyweight
- Hanging leg hip raiseBodyweight
- Cable standing crunchCable
- Band bicycle crunchResistance band
- Spine twistBodyweight
- Cable tuck reverse crunchCable
See it moving
In the app every exercise comes with its animation and the muscle marked on the body, with the set timer and the rests counted.
See NiudThis page is for information and doesn’t replace a professional. If you have an injury or a medical condition, ask first. Data from the open catalogue hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset, MIT licence.

