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Technique

  1. Hang from a bar or rings and pull your bent knees up in a tucked front lever.
  2. Rotate your hips and legs from side to side, like a windshield wiper.
  3. Maintain control and avoid using momentum.

Form tips

  • Keep your shoulders down and your back flat against an imaginary plane.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Rotator cuff
  • Back
  • Shoulders
  • Triceps
  • Obliques
  • Spine

Secondary

  • Neck
  • Forearms
  • Teres minor
  • Teres major
  • Posterior deltoid
  • Middle trapezius
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • Rhomboid major
  • Triceps brachii (long head)
  • Lower trapezius
  • External oblique
  • Internal oblique
  • Longissimus thoracis
  • Iliocostalis

Equipment

Appears in

Progressions

e0jc

Hanging windshield wiper

Elite

Regressions

e01g

Advanced tuck front lever

Advanced
e0jb

Hanging tuck circle

Intermediate
e01h

Advanced tuck front lever row

Advanced
e0be

Straddle front lever

Advanced
e03l

One-leg front lever

Advanced
e0ck

Tuck front lever row

Advanced
e0bf

Straddle front lever row

Elite
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