Strength exercise

Decline Plate-Weighted Crunch

How to do it

  1. Secure your feet on a decline bench and hold a weight plate against your chest.
  2. Slowly curl your upper body upward, contracting your abs.
  3. Pause at the top of the movement and squeeze.
  4. Lower yourself back down with control.
  5. Keep the weight plate firmly against your chest throughout.
  6. 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