Knee Up

Target Area: Core 

Equipment: Bench

  1. Balancing your buttocks on a bench, lean back slowly using your hands for support and lift your legs up off the ground so your body and legs are parallel to the ground. 
  2. With your legs together, slowly bend and pull your knees and chest towards each other, meeting at the top. 
  3. Slowly lower your legs and chest away from each other returning to your original position. This is one repetition.

INTENSITY

Increase

Hold a weight plate to your chest as you perform the exercise.

Decrease

Start out attempting this movement on a mat on the ground.

ALTERNATIVE

Knees To Elbows