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Best Obliques exercises
A curated list of 13 movements that build the obliques. Each guide includes technique cues, common mistakes, target rep ranges, and a progression scheme that auto-adjusts based on your real lifts.
- Exercises
- 13
- Compound
- 0
- Isolation
- 13
- Equipment types
- 3
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Oblique Crunch
Obliques · Bodyweight · 12–20 reps
Side Plank Hip Dip
Obliques · Bodyweight · 10–20 reps
Cable Woodchopper
Obliques · Cable · 12–20 reps
Cable Side Bend
Obliques · Cable · 12–20 reps
Hanging Oblique Raise
Obliques · Bodyweight · 8–15 reps

Side Plank
Obliques · Bodyweight · 30–60 reps
Russian Twist
Obliques · Bodyweight · 15–20 reps
Weighted Russian Twist
Obliques · Dumbbell · 12–20 reps
Exercise illustrations: Illustration: Everkinetic / wger.de (CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped and re-encoded) Licence · Illustration: Everkinetic (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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