Core · Bodyweight
Wall Seated Side Crunch
How to do the wall seated side crunch, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Logged as
- Weighted reps
- Movement
- Flexion
- Mechanic
- Isolation
How to do it
Sit on the floor beside a wall with your hip and side facing it, knees bent. Brace your obliques and crunch your torso laterally toward the wall, then return under control. Complete your reps, then switch sides.
- 1Your obliques contracting to bend your torso sideways
- 2A short, controlled crunch through the waist
- 3Even tension on the working side
Common mistakes
- Using momentum or pushing off the wall
- Pulling on your neck to move
- Twisting instead of bending laterally
Muscles worked
The wall seated side crunch mainly works the obliques, with the lower abs, upper abs, and hip flexors assisting.
- ObliquesPrimary
- Lower AbsSupport
- Upper AbsSupport
- Hip FlexorsSupport
- Lower BackMinor
- QuadsMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.