Windshield Wipers
- Lie on an exercise mat, keeping your back flat with no arching of the spine.
- Extend your arms out beside you at shoulder level, with your palms pressed firmly to the floor. Your upper body should form a “T” shape.
- Raise your feet off the floor by bending your hips and knees to 90 degree angles. This is the start position.
- As you exhale, rotate both your thighs to one side until the outer thigh touches the ground or until you feel a stretch in your abs and lower back.
- Pause briefly, then rotate to the other side without pausing in the start position.
- When you have rotated to both sides, that is one repetition.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
This exercise has 3 levels of difficulty: Beginner – with the knees and hip bent as described above; intermediate – feet up with knees at 90 degrees but the hips remaining in a neutral position; advanced –legs straight and hips bent at 90 degrees so your body forms an “L”.
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Windshield wipers is a at-home work out exercise that targets abs and obliques. Refer to the illustration diagram and instructions above for how to perform this exercise correctly. Stability / swiss / exercise ball reverse crunches, trx suspension straps atomic push-ups / pushups and incline plank shoulder taps / planks are related exercise that target the same muscle groups as windshield wipers. Visit our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises to try in your workouts.
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