What is this exercise called? Does anybody know???!
Question: It is where you put your hand behind your head and kind of do a sit up but your right elbow touches your left knee and you go down and then your left elbow touches your right knee etc, it is meant to help get a flat stomach?
Answers: It is where you put your hand behind your head and kind of do a sit up but your right elbow touches your left knee and you go down and then your left elbow touches your right knee etc, it is meant to help get a flat stomach?
What you describe are oblique sit-ups. They help your stomach muscles (on the sides of your waist) and your lower back.
It helps the obliques, your waistline.
Sounds like the oblique crunch.
It's called a twisting crunch. The purpose of the exercise is to work the upper abs and obliques.