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Also known as: Kettlebell kneeling chop and lift.

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Technique

  1. Start in a half-kneeling position holding a weight at your bottom hip.
  2. Pull the weight diagonally across your chest and up toward the opposite shoulder.
  3. Return the weight slowly along the same diagonal path.

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Form tips

  • Focus on rotating from your trunk.
Logging: Weight used on one side. Repetitions done on one side.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Obliques
  • Spine
  • Back
  • Serratus anterior
  • Shoulders

Secondary

  • Neck
  • Chest
  • External oblique
  • Internal oblique
  • Longissimus thoracis
  • Iliocostalis
  • Lower trapezius
  • Serratus anterior
  • Anterior deltoid
  • Middle deltoid

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Equipment

Kettlebell
Kettlebell

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Appears in

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