sit-up

Also known as curl-up, hanging sit-up

thumb|Sit-up form

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thumb|Sit-up form

The sit-up is an abdominal endurance training exercise to strengthen, tighten and tone the abdominal muscles. It is similar to a curl-up (that targets the rectus abdominis and also works the external and internal obliques), but sit-ups have a fuller range of motion and condition additional muscles.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sit-up” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.