Twisty ab exercise

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ski3r4life
ski3r4life Posts: 206
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What do you call the exercise where you are seated on the floor, legs raised off the ground - and then you twisted from side to side (sometimes with a weight), touching the ground with your hands before twisting back the other way? This is a very common ab exercise and yet for the life of me I cannot think of the propper name for it...

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  • McBody
    McBody Posts: 1,703 Member
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    It's called an oblique twist.
  • mamareese
    mamareese Posts: 1,573 Member
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    Yep, that or P90x refers to it as Mason Twists.
  • LizzyTish327
    LizzyTish327 Posts: 18 Member
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    Or a Russian Twist
  • CallMeMamaBoo
    CallMeMamaBoo Posts: 295
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    umm... Jillian calls those 'squirms' and her oblique twist is done in plank position bringing the knee in and twisting it to the opposite side. There is probably several different names for every exercise out there.
  • ski3r4life
    ski3r4life Posts: 206
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    Thanks guys! Looks like the Google consensus says 'Oblique twist' is a very common way to refer to this. Thanks so much!
  • McBody
    McBody Posts: 1,703 Member
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    umm... Jillian calls those 'squirms' and her oblique twist is done in plank position bringing the knee in and twisting it to the opposite side. There is probably several different names for every exercise out there.

    Jillian's "oblique twist" is also called a plank twist.

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