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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 upward.
  3. Aim to have your hips higher than your knees and to form a straight line with your arms and shoulders.
Logging: Work each side for the time indicated.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Back
  • Spine
Flexibility

Primary

  • Shoulders
  • Chest
  • Abs
  • Obliques

Secondary

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

Equipment

Appears in

Strength
Joint movements
trains stretches

Progressions

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Table top reach back

Novice

Regressions

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Table top

Novice
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Supine plank

Novice
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Long table top

Novice
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Square forearm supine plank

Novice
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Supine plank raise

Novice
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Bear rotation to reach

Intermediate
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