Strength exercise
Decline Plate-Weighted Crunch
How to do it
- Secure your feet on a decline bench and hold a weight plate against your chest.
- Slowly curl your upper body upward, contracting your abs.
- Pause at the top of the movement and squeeze.
- Lower yourself back down with control.
- Keep the weight plate firmly against your chest throughout.
- Avoid using momentum or pulling with your neck.
Muscles worked
Rectus AbdominisThe 'six-pack' muscle running vertically on the front of the abdomen, responsible for trunk flexion.
- Type
- Strength
- Equipment
- Decline Bench, Weight Plate
- Primary muscles
- Rectus Abdominis
- Measured in
- Reps and weight
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