Technique
- Keep your arms straight and your body straight at all times, with one leg straight and one leg tuck to your chest.
- From a hanging position, lift the body into one-leg front lever, then into inverted hang, and on to one-leg back lever and German hang.
- Then reverse the motion.
- The primary muscles work equally regardless of which leg you extend, so it is not necessary to count the exercise as unilateral: it is enough to alternate the legs with each set or repetition.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Back
- Chest
- Rotator cuff
- Shoulders
- Triceps
Secondary
- Biceps
- Serratus anterior
Flexibility
Secondary
- Shoulders
- Chest
- Biceps
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Latissimus dorsi
- Teres major
- Teres minor
- Posterior deltoid
- Middle trapezius
- Rhomboid major
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Anterior deltoid
- Pectoralis major (clavicular head)
- Pectoralis major (sternal head)
- Lower trapezius
- Serratus anterior
Equipment
Appears in
Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
trains stretches
Progressions

360 pull
Herculean
Regressions

One-leg front lever
Advanced

One-leg back lever
Advanced
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