Straddle Side Lever Pull
The Straddle Side Lever Pull is a side-lever or human flag progression. It gradually allows an athlete to strengthen their obliques and articulate their shoulder movements.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Stall Bars
Straddle Side Lever Pull
- Begin from an inverted side lever block with your left hand on bottom.
- Keeping a straight body with posterior pelvic tilt (PPT), straddle wide by pulling your right leg away from the bars.
- As you straddle, press away from the stall bars and begin to twist open 90-degrees to your right side.
- Straddle and lower as far as you can while keeping your left foot in contact with the bars and maintain straight elbows throughout.
- To stabilize your body and prevent drifting sideways, press strongly into your left hand (depress) and pull with your right (elevate).
- Pause momentarily in your lowest position, pull back up to the inverted side lever block (closing the straddle), and repeat for reps before switching sides.
- Exercise: Inverted Side Lever Block
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Stall Bars
- Exercise: Closed Side Lever Pull
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Equipment: Stall Bars
