Here on the Tom’s Guide fitness desk, we’re no strangers to slightly unusual fitness challenges — from doing Arnold presses every day for a week, to adding 100 bird dogs a day to my morning routine, there’s nothing we love more than taking a deep dive into an exercise. Next up? Bird dog crunches.
The bird dog exercise is named after the position a hunting dog makes when it’s located a bird — muzzle forward, leg raised. It’s essentially a core exercise, but it also targets the erector spinae, the glutes, hamstrings, upper back, and deltoid muscles, as well as the rectus abdominis muscles, often referred to as the ‘six-pack’. We’ve looked at how to do a bird dog, and what happens when you do them every day here, but I decided to up the ante by adding a crunch to the move — read on to find out what happened.
