Technique
- Hang up and lift your hips up while keeping your arms straight, until you reach a horizontal position, facing upward.
- Keep your thighs at 90 degrees from your torso and bend your knees completely.
Form tips
- The hips and shoulders should be on the same horizontal line.
- Do not let your upper back round.
- Engage your scapulas: try to retract your shoulders, so that they end up in a neutral position.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Rotator cuff
- Back
- Shoulders
- Triceps
- Serratus anterior
- Chest
Secondary
- Forearms
- Abs
- Obliques
- Pelvis
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Teres minor
- Teres major
- Posterior deltoid
- Middle trapezius
- Latissimus dorsi
- Rhomboid major
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Lower trapezius
- Triceps brachii (medial head)
- Triceps brachii (lateral head)
- Serratus anterior
- Pectoralis minor
Equipment
Appears in
Strength
Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
Progressions
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One-leg front lever
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Advanced tuck front lever raise
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Hanging tuck windshield wiper
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Regressions
Tuck front lever
Intermediate
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