Exercise

Alternate Heel Touchers

Also known as: heel touches, heel taps, lying heel touches, side crunch heel touch

Alternate Heel Touchers is a isolation exercise for the abdominals. Main target: obliques. No equipment needed — just your bodyweight.

EquipmentBodyweight

TypeIsolation

MovementPull

CategoryStrength

Muscles worked

Primary

Lie on the floor with the knees bent and the feet on the floor around 18-24 inches apart. Your arms should be extended by your side. This will be your starting position.
Crunch over your torso forward and up about 3-4 inches to the right side and touch your right heel as you hold the contraction for a second. Exhale while performing this movement.
Now go back slowly to the starting position as you inhale.
Now crunch over your torso forward and up around 3-4 inches to the left side and touch your left heel as you hold the contraction for a second. Exhale while performing this movement and then go back to the starting position as you inhale. Now that both heels have been touched, that is considered 1 repetition.
Continue alternating sides in this manner until all prescribed repetitions are done.