Technique
- Stand sideways relative to your direction of travel.
- Reach down and plant your hands on the floor one after the other.
- Kick your legs overhead one by one, landing on the lead foot and then the trailing foot to return to standing.
Form tips
- Kick explosively to gain momentum to complete the movement smoothly.
- Try to keep your body in a single plane of motion.
- Keep your legs and arms as straight as possible.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Triceps
Secondary
- Forearms
- Neck
- Back
- Shoulders
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Triceps brachii (medial head)
- Triceps brachii (lateral head)
- Flexor carpi radialis
- Flexor carpi ulnaris
- Palmaris longus
- Abductor pollicis longus
- Flexor digitorum profondus
- Flexor digitorum superficialis
- Flexor pollicis longus
- Upper trapezius
- Levator scapulae
Equipment
Appears in
Cardio
Regressions
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