Technique
- Lie with your back on the ground and the arms lying overhead.
- Lift your hips up to create an arch going from your heels to your shoulder blades.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Spine
- Glutes
- Hamstrings
Secondary
- Hip adductors
- Legs
- Pelvis
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Spinalis thoracis
- Longissimus thoracis
- Iliocostalis
- Gluteus maximus
- Semitendinosus
- Semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris (long)
- Biceps femoris (short)
Equipment
Appears in
Progressions
Rings glute bridge straight legs
Novice
One-leg supine arch body hold
Intermediate
Supine arch to hollow body crunch
Novice
Regressions
Arch body hold
Beginner
Prone hyperextension
Beginner
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