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Technique

  1. Start in a Advanced tuck front lever position, hanging from rings or from a bar. If using a bar, your thighs should pass right in front of it on your way up.
  2. While keeping your back parallel to the ground, pull on your arms and drive your elbows back to lift yourself up as high as possible.
  3. Come back to the starting position with control.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Rotator cuff
  • Back
  • Shoulders
  • Triceps
  • Biceps
  • Forearms

Secondary

  • Abs
  • Obliques
  • Pelvis
  • Teres minor
  • Teres major
  • Posterior deltoid
  • Middle trapezius
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • Rhomboid major
  • Triceps brachii (long head)
  • Biceps brachii (short head)
  • Brachialis
  • Brachioradialis
  • Lower trapezius
  • Triceps brachii (medial head)
  • Triceps brachii (lateral head)

Equipment

Appears in

Progressions

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Straddle front lever row

Elite

Regressions

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Advanced tuck front lever

Advanced
e0ck

Tuck front lever row

Advanced
e0g8

Advanced tuck front lever raise

Advanced
e14q

Front lever row

Herculean
e0be

Straddle front lever

Advanced
e03l

One-leg front lever

Advanced
e0cl

Tuck front lever row rope climb

Advanced
e0je

Hanging tuck windshield wiper

Advanced
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