Crab Toe Touches
How to Do Crab Toe Touches
- Sit on the floor with your feet in front of you and hands behind you. Your fingers can be pointed towards the side or behind you. With your feet on the floor, lift your hips skyward. Pause when your body is parallel with the floor.
- Focusing on contracting the core first, bring your right hand up while simultaneously lifting your left leg up. Touch your right hand to your left toes.
- Slowly return to the elevated position and switch sides. Bring your left hand to your right toes. Keep alternating back and forth.
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Crab Toe Touches Exercise Details
Muscles worked
Crab Toe Touches targets hamstrings and lower back and quadriceps and shoulders and upper back & lower traps and also works abs and calves and obliques. Use the illustration and step-by-step instructions above to learn the movement pattern and practice proper form.
Equipment needed
This is an at-home exercise. Equipment required: no equipment.
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