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Alternate Heel Touches

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Alternate Heel Touches target the obliques and improve core stability. This exercise enhances flexibility and engages your core muscles by twisting and reaching to touch your heels alternately, offering an effective workout for the sides of the abdomen.

How to do it

  1. Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
  2. Keep your arms extended by your sides.
  3. Lift your head and neck slightly off the floor, reaching your right hand to your right heel.
  4. Return to the center, then reach your left hand to your left heel.
  5. Continue alternating sides in a controlled manner.

Muscles worked

Primary Obliques

Secondary Rectus Abdominis

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