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Technique

  1. Stand tall with your feet together.
  2. Place your hands on your knees and move them in big circles clockwise and counterclockwise keeping the knees together.

Form tips

  • Try to not elevate your heels.
Logging: Perform circles continuously, alternating or switching halfway.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Quadriceps
  • Legs

Secondary

  • Pelvis
  • Glutes
  • Hamstrings
  • Hip adductors
  • Rectus femoris
  • Vastus medialis
  • Vastus intermedius
  • Vastus lateralis
  • Gastrocnemius
  • Soleus
  • Gluteus maximus
  • Semitendinosus
  • Semimembranosus
  • Biceps femoris (long)

Equipment

Appears in

Joint movements
trains stretches

Regressions

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Egg beater

Beginner
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Wide squat

Beginner
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Deep squat

Beginner
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Forward lunge

Beginner
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Duck walk

Novice
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Bent-knee calf raise

Novice
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