Side Lever Block Press
The Side Lever Block Press is a side lever progression, also known as the human flag. This drill helps you articulations the pressing movement through your shoulder girdle, as you extend your bodyweight outward.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Stall Bars
Side Lever Block Press
- Begin from a side lever block with your left hand on bottom.
- Press away from the bars and begin to twist open to your right.
- As you twist, place your left toes on the ground.
- Continue to push (depress) through your left shoulder and pull (elevate) through your right.
- When your torso has rotated a full 90-degrees, pause momentarily and check that your right leg is fully extended and that you still have a posterior pelvic tilt (PPT).
- Keep your position fixed and use your back and core muscles to pull your left leg off the floor and up to your right.
- Bring your legs together, pause briefly, and drop your left toes back down.
- Now begin to rotate back to the block position; as you twist back, lift your left toes back off the floor.
- Pause in the side lever block and repeat this sequence for reps before switching sides.
- Exercise: Side Lever Block
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Stall Bars
- Exercise: Inverted Side Lever Block
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Stall Bars
