Do side crunches make your waist bigger?

Side crunches work the internal and external oblique muscles, as well as the transverse abdominus . Lie down on your left side on the mat with your knees bent and stacked together and your body in a straight line.15 Ağu 2014

These exercises are not appropriate for someone wanting curves . Adding weight to exercises for the obliques increases the size of these muscles, making the waist bigger. Examples include side bending, or lateral flexion, and twisting exercises such as side bends, cable rotations and oblique crunches.

Because the obliques are positioned mainly along the sides of your torso, the effect is to actually thicken your waist . Probably not the effect you’re going for.