Technique
- Hold onto a stable support and enter a Half squat.
- Keeping your knees bent, lift your heels as high as possible to balance on your toes.
- Lower your heels back to the floor with control.
Form tips
- Maintain the same knee bend throughout the entire set.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Legs
Secondary
- Quadriceps
- Glutes
- Hamstrings
- Pelvis
- Hip adductors
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Gastrocnemius
- Soleus
- Rectus femoris
- Vastus medialis
- Vastus intermedius
- Vastus lateralis
- Gluteus maximus
- Semitendinosus
- Semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris (long)
- Flexor digitorum brevis
- Flexor digitorum longus
- Flexor hallucis longus
- Flexor hallucis brevis
Equipment
Appears in
Joint movements
Progressions
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