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Technique

  1. Get your feet on the ball, shoulders on the ground and push your hips up.
  2. Extend your legs forward while keeping your hips up and then bring your heels back toward your buttocks.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Glutes
  • Hamstrings
  • Spine

Secondary

  • Hip adductors
  • Legs
  • Pelvis
  • Gluteus maximus
  • Semitendinosus
  • Semimembranosus
  • Biceps femoris (long)
  • Spinalis thoracis
  • Longissimus thoracis
  • Iliocostalis
  • Biceps femoris (short)

Equipment

Appears in

Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
trains stretches

Regressions

e010

Stability ball glute bridge

Novice
e00o

Stability ball single leg glute bridge

Intermediate
e00s

Stability ball pike compression

Novice
e0lw

Low bird squat

Intermediate
e0lt

Low bird

Novice
e0n4

Hip stand

Novice
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