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Also known as: Crab reach.

Technique

  1. Start in a relaxed Table top position, with your fingers pointing back.
  2. While keeping your feet flat on the ground, shift your weight to one arm, lift your hips up and point the other arm back.
  3. Aim to have your hips higher than your knees and your free arm aligned with your torso.
Logging: Work each side for the time indicated.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Back
  • Spine
Flexibility

Primary

  • Shoulders
  • Chest
  • Abs
  • Obliques

Secondary

  • Biceps
  • Pelvis
  • Back
  • Rhomboid major
  • Middle trapezius
  • Lower trapezius
  • Spinalis thoracis
  • Longissimus thoracis
  • Iliocostalis

Equipment

Appears in

Strength
Joint movements
trains stretches

Progressions

e0hx

High bridge rotation

Intermediate
w001

Bear rotation to reach

Intermediate
w026

Levitating side kick-through to reach

Elite

Regressions

e0g6

Table top reach up

Novice
e0c3

Supine plank

Novice
e0c9

Table top

Novice
e0sd

One-leg bridge

Intermediate
e06o

Long table top

Novice
e0sc

One-arm bridge

Advanced
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