Technique
- Sit down with your hands behind you.
- Lift your hips up to reach a table top position (with a 90 deg. angle at the shoulders and the knees).
- Reverse the motion and repeat without touching the ground with your butt.
- Point your fingers back to work your shoulders external rotation.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Back
- Spine
- Rotator cuff
- Shoulders
- Triceps
Flexibility
Primary
- Shoulders
- Chest
Secondary
- Biceps
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Rhomboid major
- Middle trapezius
- Lower trapezius
- Spinalis thoracis
- Longissimus thoracis
- Iliocostalis
- Teres minor
- Teres major
- Posterior deltoid
- Latissimus dorsi
- Triceps brachii (long head)
Equipment
Appears in
Flexibility
Joint movements
Progressions
Table top
Novice
Regressions
Parallettes two-feet support L-sit
Beginner
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