Technique
- Get on all fours, with the palms flat on the ground and fingers facing forward.
- Lift your palms off the ground, while keeping the fingers on the ground, by bending at the knuckles.
- Make it easier by leaning back and harder by leaning forward.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Forearms
Flexibility
Primary
- Forearms
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Flexor carpi radialis
- Flexor carpi ulnaris
- Palmaris longus
- Abductor pollicis longus
- Flexor digitorum profondus
- Flexor digitorum superficialis
- Flexor pollicis longus
Equipment
Appears in
Strength
Flexibility
Joint movements
Progressions
Palm raise pushup
Novice
Quick wrists warmup
Novice
Thorough wrists warmup
Intermediate
Regressions
Kneeling wrists stretches
Beginner
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