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Technique

  1. Lift your knee up to touch your elbow.
  2. Do not let your shoulder shrug: push it away from you.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Obliques
  • Pelvis
  • Spine
  • Shoulders
  • Rotator cuff

Secondary

  • Neck
  • Abs
  • Glutes
  • External oblique
  • Internal oblique
  • Quadratus lumborum
  • Spinalis thoracis
  • Longissimus thoracis
  • Iliocostalis
  • Middle deltoid
  • Supraspinatus
  • Gluteus medius
  • Gluteus minimus

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Equipment

Ground (hands or body)
Ground (hands or body)

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Appears in

Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
Trunklateral flexion
Shoulderabduction
Hipabduction
trains stretches

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Progressions

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Side plank leg raise

Novice

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Regressions

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Side plank

Beginner
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Side plank dip

Novice
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Side plank toe touch

Intermediate
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Knee-support side plank

Beginner
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Side body crunch arms down

Novice
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T-pushup

Novice
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