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Also known as: Single arm elbow lever.

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Technique

  1. Place one elbow in your side or abdomen and the hand on the floor.
  2. Balance your horizontal body on that single hand.
  3. Hold your legs together and straight while maintaining balance.

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Form tips

  • Keep your legs and back tight.
  • Open the other hand to to the front for balance
Logging: Work each side for the time indicated.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Shoulders
  • Chest

Secondary

  • Biceps
  • Abs
  • Obliques
  • Glutes
  • Hamstrings
  • Spine
  • Pelvis
  • Hip adductors
  • Anterior deltoid
  • Pectoralis major (clavicular head)

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Equipment

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

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Appears in

Joint movements
Shoulderflexion forward
trains stretches

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Progressions

e0rn

Elevated one-arm straddle elbow lever

Elite

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Regressions

e07h

One-arm straddle elbow lever

Elite
e0ot

QDR pushup

Advanced
e0sc

One-arm bridge

Advanced
e17y

One-leg supine arch body hold

Intermediate
e0sd

One-leg bridge

Intermediate
e07f

One-arm pushup

Elite
e0rt

Superman pushup

Elite
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