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Technique

  1. Start from a L-sit position with your hands by your hips on the Parallettes, legs straight.
  2. Kick your legs up into a V-sit
  3. Control the descent and do not rest your feet between repetitions

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Form tips

  • Focus on explosive compression from the Abs and hip flexors.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Rotator cuff
  • Back
  • Shoulders
  • Triceps

Secondary

  • Forearms
  • Teres minor
  • Teres major
  • Posterior deltoid
  • Middle trapezius
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • Rhomboid major
  • Triceps brachii (long head)
  • Triceps brachii (medial head)
  • Triceps brachii (lateral head)

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Equipment

Parallettes
Parallettes

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Appears in

Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
Elbowextension
Shoulderextension backward
trains stretches

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Progressions

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V-sit 45°

Advanced
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V-sit

Advanced
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Supine plank lean

Intermediate
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Hand-release dip

Advanced
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Deep pike pushup

Intermediate
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Air pushup

Advanced
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Rings shoulder stand

Advanced
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