Rolling compression

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Technique

1. Start lying on your back.
2. Contract your Abs to get into a Hollow body hold position, with only your lower back touching the ground.
3. Lift your legs up in a similar way to the straight-leg reverse crunch, slowly bringing them up and then down and back towards your head.
4. Stay a couple seconds in the Supine pike fold position before slowly unfolding back to the starting position.

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Form tips

• Try to minimize or eliminate momentum by making the movement slow and focusing on compressing your legs toward your upper body.
• Keep the legs straights.

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Muscles

Individual muscles

• Rectus abdominis
• External oblique
• Internal oblique
• Iliacus
• Rectus femoris
• Psoas major

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Equipment

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Regressions

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