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Step-by-step instructions
- 01Attach a rope to a high cable, face the machine, and kneel or stand while holding the rope beside your head.
- 02Set your hips in a stable position, brace your abdomen, and keep your arms fixed so the cable does not move by pulling with your hands.
- 03Flex your trunk to bring your ribs toward your pelvis for one straight cable crunch.
- 04Return under control, then flex and rotate slightly to bring your ribs toward one hip for the oblique crunch.
- 05Continue alternating between the straight and diagonal crunches, changing the diagonal side as programmed while keeping your hips mostly still.
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