Technique
- Start in a horse stance position, with your legs opened wide, your knees bend at about 90 degrees, and your torso upright.
- Shift your weight to one leg and lift the other leg high up in the air.
- Optional: slap your thigh when your leg is at its highest point for dramatic effect.
- Land back smoothly and sink your hips as low as possible.
- Repeat on the other side.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Glutes
- Hamstrings
- Quadriceps
Secondary
- Hip adductors
- Pelvis
Flexibility
Primary
- Hip adductors
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Gluteus maximus
- Semitendinosus
- Semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris (long)
- Rectus femoris
- Vastus medialis
- Vastus intermedius
- Vastus lateralis
- Gluteus medius
- Gluteus minimus
Equipment
Appears in
Flexibility
Other disciplines
Regressions
Wide squat
Beginner
Horse stance
Beginner
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