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Also known as: Double leg extension.

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Technique

  1. Lie on your back with arms vertical and legs elevated with kness bent ( Dead bug).
  2. Extend the hips and knees together until straight and slightly above the floor without resting the feet on it.
  3. Return to the starting position without arching your back

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Form tips

  • Engage your Abs to stabilize your pelvis.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Abs
  • Obliques
  • Pelvis
  • Quadriceps

Secondary

  • Hip adductors
  • Rectus abdominis
  • External oblique
  • Internal oblique
  • Iliacus
  • Rectus femoris
  • Psoas major

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Equipment

Ground (hands or body)
Ground (hands or body)

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Appears in

Joint movements
Trunkflexion
Hipflexion
trains stretches

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Progressions

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Tuck reverse crunch

Beginner
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Sit-up

Beginner
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Assisted sitting leg extensions

Beginner
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Lying advanced tuck raise

Beginner
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Lying tuck raise

Beginner
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Roll up

Beginner
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