Skip to main content

​
Technique

  1. Place your hands on Parallettes and push yourself into a support position.
  2. Extend one leg straight forward so it is parallel to the ground.
  3. Keep the other leg tucked close to your chest and hold the position.

​
Form tips

  • Keep your arms locked straight and maintain a strong Shoulder depression.
Logging: Work each side for the time indicated.

​
Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Back
  • Serratus anterior
  • Chest
  • Pelvis
  • Quadriceps

Secondary

  • Hip adductors
  • Forearms
  • Lower trapezius
  • Serratus anterior
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • Pectoralis minor
  • Iliacus
  • Rectus femoris
  • Psoas major
  • Vastus medialis
  • Vastus intermedius
  • Vastus lateralis

​
Equipment

Parallettes
Parallettes

​
Appears in

Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
Shoulderdepression
HandFinger flexion
trains stretches

​
Progressions

e07l

One-leg l-sit

Novice

​
Variations

e07l

One-leg l-sit

Novice
e12s

Parallettes L-sit

Novice
e12t

Parallettes tuck L-sit

Novice
e12x

Parallettes one-foot support L-sit

Beginner
e0yv

One-leg wall sit

Novice
e0tk

Single towel hang

Novice
Want to log this exercise? Open it in Calistree. Text and images are used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; the video plays from the original source.