Technique
- Stand up, shift your weight to one leg and lift the other leg straight up to the side.
- Get your foot as high as your current flexibility allows.
Form tips
- Keep your whole body in one plane of motion.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Glutes
Secondary
- Pelvis
- Legs
Flexibility
Primary
- Hip adductors
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Gluteus medius
- Gluteus minimus
- Flexor digitorum brevis
- Flexor digitorum longus
- Flexor hallucis longus
- Flexor hallucis brevis
Equipment
Appears in
Flexibility
Balance
Joint movements
Progressions
Banded side leg raise
Novice
Regressions
Lying side leg raise
Beginner
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