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Technique

  1. Lie down on your back, with your feet inside Rings and your legs fully extended.
  2. Push on your feet and activate your Hamstrings, Glutes and lower back to lift your hips up as high as possible.
  3. Slowly come back down and repeat.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Hamstrings
  • Glutes

Secondary

  • Legs
  • Hip adductors
  • Pelvis
  • Spine
  • Semitendinosus
  • Semimembranosus
  • Biceps femoris (short)
  • Biceps femoris (long)
  • Gluteus maximus
  • Spinalis thoracis
  • Longissimus thoracis
  • Iliocostalis

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Equipment

Rings
Rings

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Appears in

Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
Kneeflexion
Hipextension
trains stretches

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Progressions

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Sliding leg curl

Novice

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Regressions

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Rings glute bridge bent legs

Novice
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Supine arch body hold

Novice
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Stability ball hamstring curl

Novice
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Deficit hip thrust

Novice
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Bridge pose with legs half extended

Beginner
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Rings biceps curl

Novice
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Supine arch to hollow body crunch

Novice
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