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The oblique side crunch is one of the first exercises I ever tackled as a fitness daily. Remember it’s a very subtle movement. Don’t do too much. Just stand tall with the weight hanging naturally at one side and your shoulders stacked over your hips. Without leaning forward or twisting, you gently shorten the space between your rib cage and your hip on the weighted side. The movement comes from the obliques pulling the torso into a slight lateral compression, not from swinging the arm or bending