Core · Bodyweight
Lateral Shuffle Crunches
How to do the lateral shuffle crunches, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Logged as
- Reps
- Movement
- Lunge
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Shuffle a few steps to one side in a low athletic stance, then stop and perform a standing crunch by pulling one knee up toward the opposite elbow. Shuffle back the other way and crunch again, alternating directions. Stay low and keep moving for a continuous conditioning effort.
- 1Your glutes and quads working on the lateral shuffle
- 2Your abs crunching as knee meets elbow
- 3A low, athletic stance held throughout
Common mistakes
- Standing too upright during the shuffle
- Letting your feet click together on the shuffle
- Rushing the crunch so it loses the contraction
Muscles worked
The lateral shuffle crunches mainly works the obliques, with the upper abs, lower abs, quads, glutes, hip flexors, hamstrings, calves, and adductors assisting.
- ObliquesPrimary
- Upper AbsSupport
- Lower AbsSupport
- QuadsSupport
- GlutesSupport
- Hip FlexorsSupport
- HamstringsSupport
- CalvesSupport
- AdductorsSupport
- Tibialis AnteriorMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.