EXERCISE #3 - The Basement Crunch

PREPARATION:

1. Lie down on your side. Bring knees up into a fetal position.

2. Place hands behind your head, elbows flared out. Keep elbows out during the execution.

3. Turn your upper body toward your top hip.
EXECUTION:

1. Inhale deeply.

2. Exhale half the air and lift bottom shoulder off floor and hold. Hold your breath.
3. Lifting your bottom shoulder toward the top hip, in this position once again contract the
transverse abs as in the Scarlett O'Hara, bending ever-so-slightly forward and hold the position for
10 seconds.

4. Release, relax, let breathing return to normal, then repeat 3 more times that side.

5. Repeat on the other side.
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