Vertical Body Lever
Vertical Body Levers are a front lever progression that help athletes isolate and activate lats. You should already have a solid body lever and be prepared to work your triceps.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Lats
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Other
Vertical Body Lever
- Lie on your back, with your grip on a fixed object so that your arms are vertical, directly above your shoulders.
- Your arms will remain completely straight in this position for the duration of the movement.
- Squeeze your core and remove the space between your low back and the floor.
- Engage your glutes and legs fully and point your toes.
- Press through your hands to lift your straight body up to a candlestick position.
- Pause briefly before lowering back down with control.
- As you raise up and down, keep your body straight with posterior pelvic tilt (PPT) by maintaining strong glute, abdominal, shoulder, and lat tension.
- Do not allow your hips to pike at anytime and aim to lift off and touch down one vertebrae at a time.
- Repeat for reps.
- Exercise: Body Lever
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Anchor
- Exercise: Single Bar Inverted Hang
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Lats, Chest
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Pull-Up Bar
