Single Leg V-Up
The V-Up exercises work both the upper and lower abs by combining the crunch and reverse crunch exercise.
Teaching points
- Lay on your back on the floor with one knee bent and one straight.
- Hold a medicine ball in both hands, above your head.
- Lift your head, neck and shoulders off the ground as you would in a crunch.
- At the same time lift the straight leg off the floor and bring the medicine ball forwards to meet the raised leg.
- Slowly return to the starting position.
Variations and progressions
- Raise both legs to progress the exercise.
Muscles worked
- Rectus Abdominus.
- Transversus Abdominus.
- Iliopsoas.
Alternative exercises
- Reverse crunch.
- Medicine ball reverse crunch.
- Plank.
Related injuries
- Lower back pain.
- Abdominal strain.
