Technique
- Get into a Rings support position.
- Extend your legs straight out in front of you and lift them up as high as possible; the higher they go, the harder the exercise becomes.
Form tips
- Aim to keep the rings parallel to each other.
- Keep your legs straight; do hamstring stretches (ex: Standing pike on the ground) and compression work (ex: Sitting pike compression) to improve your form and make the exercise easier to perform.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Rotator cuff
- Back
- Shoulders
- Triceps
- Serratus anterior
- Chest
Secondary
- Pelvis
- Quadriceps
- Abs
- Obliques
- Hip adductors
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Teres minor
- Teres major
- Posterior deltoid
- Middle trapezius
- Latissimus dorsi
- Rhomboid major
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Lower trapezius
- Serratus anterior
- Pectoralis minor
- Iliacus
- Rectus femoris
- Psoas major
- Rectus abdominis
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
Equipment
Appears in
Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
trains stretches
Regressions
Rings l-sit
Intermediate
RTO l-sit
Advanced
RTO straddle-sit
Advanced
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Parallettes straddle L-sit
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