Technique
- Stand upright and shift your weight onto one leg
- Raise the knee of the other leg at hip height, pointing the foot downward.
- Raise the arm on the same side of the elevated leg straight toward the sky, wrist extended and palm up.
- Keep the other arm flexed across the torso, hand with wrist extended with palm to the side as in protecting the side
Form tips
- Keep your torso tall and your hips facing forward.
Logging: Work each side for the time indicated.
Muscles
Strength
Secondary
- Pelvis
- Quadriceps
- Legs
- Hip adductors
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Iliacus
- Rectus femoris
- Psoas major
- Flexor digitorum brevis
- Flexor digitorum longus
- Flexor hallucis longus
- Flexor hallucis brevis
Equipment
Appears in
Regressions
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Beginner
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