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Technique

  1. Start in a Hollow body position while holding a Weight plate with your hands.
  2. Bring the weight forward, engage your Abs to lift your upper back off the ground and bring your knees in towards your chest.
  3. Try to contract into a ball, with the plate above your shins.
  4. Then slowly extend your body back to the starting position.
Logging: Total weight used.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Chest
  • Back
  • Abs
  • Obliques
  • Pelvis
  • Quadriceps

Secondary

  • Hip adductors
  • Serratus anterior
Flexibility

Primary

  • Chest
  • Back
  • Pectoralis major (clavicular head)
  • Pectoralis major (sternal head)
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • Teres major
  • Serratus anterior
  • Rectus abdominis
  • External oblique
  • Internal oblique
  • Iliacus
  • Rectus femoris
  • Psoas major

Equipment

Appears in

Flexibility
Other disciplines
Joint movements
Trunkflexion
trains stretches

Regressions

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Double crunch

Novice
e10i

Dumbbell pullover

Beginner

Variations

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Double crunch

Novice
e11c

Stability ball weight pullover

Novice
e143

Dumbbell overhead triceps extension

Novice
e142

Plate overhead triceps extension

Novice
w024

Extended deck squat

Novice
e174

Pike walk out

Novice
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