Technique
- From a Straight-arm hang position, bend your knees while keeping your hips straight (this is the Half-layout position).
- Engage your scapulas ( Shoulder depression and Shoulder retraction) and pull your body upward.
- Go through the Half layout front lever position and keep going until the Inverted hang position, then reverse the motion.
Form tips
- Keep your body in the Half-layout position the whole time.
- Keep your arms straight.
- Keep your back straight.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Rotator cuff
- Back
- Shoulders
- Triceps
- Chest
- Serratus anterior
Secondary
- Forearms
- Abs
- Obliques
- Pelvis
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Teres minor
- Teres major
- Posterior deltoid
- Middle trapezius
- Latissimus dorsi
- Rhomboid major
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Lower trapezius
- Triceps brachii (medial head)
- Triceps brachii (lateral head)
- Serratus anterior
- Pectoralis minor
Equipment
Appears in
Strength
Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
Progressions
Front lever raise
Herculean
Regressions
Half layout front lever
Elite
Straddle front lever raise
Elite
One-leg front lever raise
Elite
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