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One easy way to immediately switch things up is tostand up.

To find out more, I swapped my sit-ups for a standing oblique crunch.

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Read on to find out what happened.

I did standing oblique crunches heres what happened

Ready to torch your obliques?

I added this simple standing ab exercise to my routine for a week.

an illo of a woman doing a standing oblique crunch

Heres how I got on.

On day three, I added one of thebest resistance bandsto the equation.

This increased the upper-body burn with the move.

Exercise Bands for Physical…

I felt this one in my obliques

The oblique muscles run along the side of your torso.

You have internal and external obliques.

After a week, I felt this exercise in my obliques, especially with the extra resistance.

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That said, these oblique crunches highlighted how unbalanced I was on my left side.

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