The reverse crunch has a reputation for targeting your lower abs, the shorthand for the lower portion of your rectus abdominis, but Saladino stressed that the degree to which this is true varies from person to person. “We are all going to target them a bit differently depending on how much tension we can create in that area,” he says.
“To say the reverse crunch is going to put more strain or emphasis on the lower abs might be true in certain cases, but others may feel the reverse crunch in the entire abdominal region.”