{"id":3266,"date":"2019-10-10T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehitzone.co.uk\/?page_id=1361"},"modified":"2023-07-27T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:11:05","slug":"exercise-guide-bent-knee-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/blog\/exercise-guide-bent-knee-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Guide &#8211; Bent Knee Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"HITZone Exercise Guide - Bent Knee Crunch\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h2yhByuj8qg?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch our HIT Machine Exercises: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-bent-knee-crunch\/\">Bent Knee Crunch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-bent-over-row\/\">Bent Over Row<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-clean-press\/\">Clean &amp; Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-lunge\/\">Lunge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-shoulder-press\/\">Shoulder Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-shoulder-press-knee-drive\/\">Shoulder Press Knee Drive<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-skiers\/\">Skiers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-squat\/\">Squat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-squat-press\/\">Squat &amp; Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-superman\/\">Superman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch our Auxiliary Exercises:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-body-weight-squat\">Body Weight Squat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-skipping\/\">Skipping<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-high-knee-to-elbow\/\">High Knee to Elbow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-high-knee-to-elbow\/\">Medicine Ball Above Head<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-dumbbell-press-high-knee\/\">High Knee Dumbbell Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-jumping-jacks\/\">Jumping Jacks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-touch-downs\/\">Touch Downs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-v-sit-twist\/\">V Twist Sit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-step-ups\/\">Step Ups<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-skipping\/\">Skipping<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-body-weight-squat\/\">Body Weight Squat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-high-knee-to-elbow\/\">High Knee To Elbow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-get-ups\/\">Get Ups<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hitzoneglobal.com\/exercise-guide-up-down-plank\/\">Up Down Planks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bent Knee Crunch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A core workout performed at HITZone is the Bent Knee Crunch. This is an abdominal workout performed on the floor. There are many different types of crunches and this particular version uses our patented HIT Machine technology to provide resistance and you keep your knees bent throughout the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>You start in the laying down position with your feet bent and your hands on the handles or the HIT Machine and then push up in a single fluid motion, lifting your head and shoulders off the floor and push the HIT Machine handles into the air with a straight arm while keeping your bum and feet on the floor. Then you return to the starting position while under control and repeat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of the Bent Knee Crunch<\/strong><br \/>\nAs with any crunch in which your upper body moves directly toward your legs, the rectus abdominis muscle is targeted and you will also work the obliques. These muscles help to stabilise you when you sit, walk and run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch our HIT Machine Exercises: Bent Knee Crunch, Bent Over Row, Clean &amp; Press, Lunge, Shoulder Press, Shoulder Press Knee Drive, Skiers, Squat, Squat &amp; Press, Superman Watch our Auxiliary Exercises: Body Weight Squat, Skipping, High Knee to Elbow, Medicine Ball Above Head, High Knee Dumbbell Press, Jumping Jacks, Touch Downs, V Twist Sit, Step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitsona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}