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Side bends

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Side bends

Beginner10 repsNo jumping

Muscles worked

Abs

You need

Dumbbells

How to do it

  1. Stand tall with your feet hip-width apart and your hands on your hips.
  2. Bend sideways from the waist, sliding your ribcage over to one side while keeping your hips level and facing forward, then return to center and bend the other way.
  3. Move slowly and let each bend open up the side of your waist.
  4. Think of your spine as a plant leaning toward the sun - a smooth curve, not a collapse.

Exercise from Darebee, used under licence.

CC BY-SA 4.0, via wger.