Technique
- Lie on the ground, facing up, arms overhead, and take a Hollow body position: tight core, lower back touching the ground, legs straight and off the ground.
- Lift your legs up and contract your Abs to lift your upper back off the ground.
- Try to reach for your feet with your hands.
- Do not use momentum: be in control of every position you go through.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Pelvis
- Quadriceps
- Abs
- Obliques
Secondary
- Hip adductors
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Iliacus
- Rectus femoris
- Psoas major
- Rectus abdominis
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
Equipment
Appears in
Progressions
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Novice
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