Alternate Heel Touchers
Description
Alternate heel touchers (heel touches) lie on your back with knees bent and alternately reach to touch your right heel with your right hand and left heel with your left hand. The lateral reaching motion targets the obliques through lateral spinal flexion.
Equipment Required
Alternate Heel Touchers Instructions
- Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat. Arms at your sides.
- Crunch up slightly — lift your shoulders off the floor.
- Reach your right hand toward your right heel by bending laterally.
- Return to center.
- Reach your left hand toward your left heel.
- Continue alternating side to side.
- Keep shoulders off the floor throughout for constant tension.
- Aim for 15 to 25 touches per side.
Alternate Heel Touchers Form & Visual
Alternate Heel Touchers Benefits
- Targets the obliques through lateral reaching
- Constant ab tension from sustained crunch
- No equipment needed
- Beginner-friendly oblique exercise
- Simple and effective
- Burns out the obliques efficiently
Alternate Heel Touchers Muscles Worked
- Obliques
- Rectus abdominis
- Quadratus lumborum
