Technique
- Hang from a bar or Rings and pull into a full Front lever.
- While maintaining the horizontal position, pull your body to the bar by driving your elbows back.
- Lower back to the lever position with control.
Form tips
- Keep your body perfectly horizontal with no piking at the hips.
- Retract your scapulas at the top of the pull.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Rotator cuff
- Back
- Shoulders
- Triceps
- Biceps
- Forearms
Secondary
- Abs
- Obliques
- Pelvis
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- 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
Joint movements
Regressions
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Elite
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