TOPS Pull
The TOPS Pull is a full-body, intermediate ring drill that trains the athlete's core control, shoulder stability, and arm strength.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats, Biceps, Forearms, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Gymnastic Rings
TOPS Pull
- Begin in an inverted hang on the rings with a straight body.
- Achieve a posterior pelvic tilt (PPT) and maintain it throughout this exercise.
- With as much control as possible, lower your body down through a bent-arm front lever and then up to a chin hang.
- Simultaneously bend your elbows and pull upward as your body rotates 180-degrees, from inverted to upright.
- Keeping a straight body line and PPT (no piking your hips), reverse the motion back to the inverted hang.
- Exercise: Side Lat
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Lats, Obliques
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Stall Bars
- Exercise: Yewki
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Lats, Obliques
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Stall Bars