Core

Cable crunch

Abs against a load you can actually increase, rather than adding reps forever.

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The movement pages are part of MacroChef Plus

How the lift is performed, what it trains, and where it belongs in a split — for all 67 movements. One subscription covers the training side and the whole recipe library.

How Plus works

Cable crunch, the movement — The movement

Trains

Abs

Programmed at

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Used as

a swap for other movements

This one is not programmed directly — it is what you do when the first choice is taken or does not suit you. See the splits it stands in for.

The muscle itself

The abdominal wall in three layers: rectus abdominis down the middle, external oblique on one side, transverse abdominis revealed beneath on the other. — Three layers, not one sheet. Only the outermost is the part people mean by abs.

Everything else that trains this pattern

Dead bugTrunk
Hanging knee raiseLower abs, Hip flexors, Grip
Lying leg raiseLower abs, Hip flexors
Pallof pressObliques, Trunk
PlankTrunk
Side plankObliques, Trunk

Training is the easy half

You will not build anything on the wrong number of calories, and most people are eating a long way under the protein they think they are. Get your daily number, then have the week built to it — every recipe on the site is costed from gram weights, so the figures are checkable rather than rounded up to sound better.

This is not a form tutorial. There is no technique walkthrough here and no claim about the one correct way to move — a page cannot watch you lift. What it gives you is what the movement trains, how much of it to do, and what to do instead when the equipment is taken. If a movement is new to you, get someone qualified to watch your first few sessions. If you are under 18, pregnant, or managing an injury or medical condition, talk to someone qualified rather than a website.