Lying Alternate Toe Touch Floor
Gym Exercise Card
Equipment
The Lying Alternate Toe Touch Floor exercise targets the core muscles, enhancing abdominal strength and stability. It involves lying on your back and reaching to touch your toes alternately, which emphasizes the rectus abdominis and obliques while also engaging the hip flexors and lower body for stabilization.
How to do it
- Lie flat on your back with legs elevated and knees bent at 90 degrees.
- Place your hands at your sides for support.
- Bring your left knee toward your chest and reach your right hand to touch your left toe.
- Alternate sides, then bring your right knee toward your chest while reaching your left hand to touch your right toe.
- Repeat the movement, alternating sides in a controlled manner.
Muscles worked
Primary Obliques Rectus Abdominis
Secondary Iliopsoas Quadriceps