Technique
- Lying on your back, legs together and straight, heels hovering above the floor
- Smoothly raise your legs while bending them as little as possible until your thighs are firmly pressed against your chest
- Pause and try to press your thighs into your chest
- Slowly reverse the motion until the heels are just above the floor
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Abs
- Obliques
- Pelvis
- Quadriceps
Secondary
- Hip adductors
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Rectus abdominis
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
- Iliacus
- Rectus femoris
- Psoas major
Equipment
Appears in
Progressions
Plow raise
Intermediate
Rolling compression
Intermediate
Regressions
Lying legs raise
Beginner
Tuck reverse crunch
Beginner
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