{"id":174617,"date":"2022-11-29T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingmuscle.com\/?p=174617"},"modified":"2023-09-08T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:17:56","slug":"russian-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingmuscle.com\/russian-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Do the Russian Twist for Powerful Abs"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you listed the most popular ab exercises, there would be some familiar contenders like crunches<\/a>, planks, and leg raises, no doubt. But one dark horse in the race is the Russian twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You’ll see it performed by bodybuilders, fitness influencers, “functional fitness” athletes who wear toe-gripping shoes that look like gloves, group-fitness worshipers, and cardio enthusiasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One reason why it’s so regularly used is that it lets you really feel you abdominal muscles working, almost irrespective of how well the exercise is actually performed. You can do it “wrong” and still feel some kind of burn because you’re bending and twisting. A better reason why it’s so popular is because it targets nearly every muscle in your core, including the rarely targeted oblique muscles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how to make sure you do the Russian twist the right way to get that deep burn in your abs and obliques, not your lower back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n