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Colonel · 01-12-2006, 10:02 PM

[quote="Airborne Butters":e2938]
This seems stupid, but how exactly do you do a crunch? The way the guy described em was like you you bring your knee's about mid, then cross your arms on your chest and kind of meet mid-par in a sense...do I have this correct or is it just basically a situp?[/quote:e2938]

That's about it. In a "sit-up" you keep your feet on the floor, knees bent and you raise all the way off the floor until your chest hits your knees. A crunch is a shorter movement. You raise your knees until your thighs are perpenticular (sp?) to the floor and then you raise your shoulders off the floor and "crunch" your abdominals. BTW - Butters, if you have never done these, or any type of exercise, I highly recommend joining a health club and getting one of their guys to show you how to do all of these types of exercises. Also, go buy a fitness magazine. Almost every one of them have ab execises in there every month. This month's Runner's World has five very good ab exercises illustrated and explained.

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Colonel is Offline Master Sergeant Posts: 1,789 Join Date: May 2002 Location: Marietta, GA	01-12-2006, 10:02 PM [quote="Airborne Butters":e2938] This seems stupid, but how exactly do you do a crunch? The way the guy described em was like you you bring your knee's about mid, then cross your arms on your chest and kind of meet mid-par in a sense...do I have this correct or is it just basically a situp?[/quote:e2938] That's about it. In a "sit-up" you keep your feet on the floor, knees bent and you raise all the way off the floor until your chest hits your knees. A crunch is a shorter movement. You raise your knees until your thighs are perpenticular (sp?) to the floor and then you raise your shoulders off the floor and "crunch" your abdominals. BTW - Butters, if you have never done these, or any type of exercise, I highly recommend joining a health club and getting one of their guys to show you how to do all of these types of exercises. Also, go buy a fitness magazine. Almost every one of them have ab execises in there every month. This month's Runner's World has five very good ab exercises illustrated and explained.