Technique
- Stand on one leg on a raised surface.
- Bend the other leg and grab the foot with your hand on the same side.
- Squat down until your bent knee drops lower than the support foot: the lower you go, the more difficulty increases
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Glutes
- Hamstrings
- Quadriceps
Secondary
- Hip adductors
- Pelvis
- Legs
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Gluteus maximus
- Semitendinosus
- Semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris (long)
- Rectus femoris
- Vastus medialis
- Vastus intermedius
- Vastus lateralis
Equipment
Appears in
Regressions
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Intermediate
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