Technique
- Hang from a bar or rings and tuck your knees to your chest.
- Rotate your body backward between your arms until your feet point toward the ground.
- Reverse the motion with control to return to the starting tuck hang.
Form tips
- Move slowly through the transition to protect your shoulders.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Back
- Chest
- Rotator cuff
- Shoulders
- Triceps
- Serratus anterior
Secondary
- Biceps
- Forearms
Flexibility
Secondary
- Shoulders
- Chest
- Biceps
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Latissimus dorsi
- Teres major
- Teres minor
- Posterior deltoid
- Middle trapezius
- Rhomboid major
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Anterior deltoid
- Pectoralis major (clavicular head)
- Pectoralis major (sternal head)
- Lower trapezius
- Serratus anterior
- Pectoralis minor
Equipment
Appears in
Joint movements
trains stretches
Progressions

Pike skin-the-cat
Intermediate

Tuck back lever
Intermediate

Tuck front lever
Intermediate
Regressions

German hang
Novice
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