Standing Knee-to-Elbow
🧍♀️ Standing Abs · updated September 2026
⏱ 45 sec🔁 3 sets of 20📶 beginner🌿 low-impact
Targets: obliques, balance, light cardio
How to do it
- 1Stand tall, hands behind your ears, elbows wide.
- 2Lift your right knee across toward your left elbow, crunching the waist.
- 3Return and switch sides in a steady rhythm.
- 4Squeeze the obliques at each contact.
Form tips
- • Crunch down to the knee — don't just kick up
- • Stay tall between reps
- • Speed it up for cardio, slow it down for burn
Common mistakes
- • Rounding the whole back
- • Tiny knee lifts with no torso motion
- • Holding the breath
