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Also known as: Captain’s chair leg raise.

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Technique

  1. Support yourself on your forearms on parallel bars, with your body vertical and your shoulders pushed away from your ears ( Shoulder depression).
  2. Lift your straight legs up, then slowly back down.
  3. Don’t swing: keep your body stable.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Back
  • Serratus anterior
  • Chest
  • Abs
  • Obliques
  • Pelvis
  • Quadriceps

Secondary

  • Hip adductors
  • Lower trapezius
  • Serratus anterior
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • Pectoralis minor
  • Rectus abdominis
  • External oblique
  • Internal oblique
  • Iliacus
  • Rectus femoris
  • Psoas major

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Equipment

Dip station
Dip station
Parallel bars
Parallel bars

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Appears in

Joint movements
Trunkflexion
Shoulderdepression
Hipflexion
trains stretches

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Regressions

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Forearm support knee raise

Novice
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Forearm support one-leg raise

Novice
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Support legs raises to l-sit

Novice
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Support knees to chest

Novice
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Forearm support one-knee raise

Novice
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Dip

Intermediate
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PB walk

Intermediate
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