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Technique

  1. Stand beside a Kettlebell and hook one foot under the handle.
  2. Drive your knee up high while keeping the rest of your body straight.
  3. Slowly come back down to the starting position.
Logging: Weight used on one side. Repetitions done on one side.
Risks
  • Holding a Kettlebell with a foot is not very secure, so be careful not to let it drop on your other foot.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Pelvis
  • Quadriceps

Secondary

  • Hip adductors
  • Legs
  • Iliacus
  • Rectus femoris
  • Psoas major
  • Tibialis anterior
  • Extensor digitorum longus

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Equipment

Kettlebell
Kettlebell

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Appears in

Other disciplines
Joint movements
Hipflexion
Ankledorsiflexion
trains stretches

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Regressions

e0ki

One-leg stand

Beginner

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Variations

e12f

Banded knee drive

Novice
e19t

Weighted quarter pistol squat touchdown

Novice
e147

Weighted lunge

Novice
e14r

Weighted pistol squat

Intermediate
e19s

Quarter pistol squat touchdown

Novice
e19q

Quarter pistol squat

Novice
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