maratoolWind Sprints
How to do the wind sprints
- Hang from a pull-up bar using a pronated grip. Your arms and legs should be extended. This will be your starting position.
- Begin by quickly raising one knee as high as you can. Do not swing your body or your legs. 3
- Immediately reverse the motion, returning that leg to the starting position. Simultaneously raise the opposite knee as high as possible.
- Continue alternating between legs until the set is complete.
Muscles worked
The prime movers are the rectus abdominis and the obliques, which flex the trunk forward and resist it being pulled into extension or twisted out of line.
Every exercise for:Abdominals
How this movement works
The load travels toward you and several joints bend to bring it there. The arms finish work the back starts, so grip and elbow flexors sit in the path of every repetition: when people stall on a compound pull, it is more often the hands giving out than the primary muscle running out of force.
It is filed under strength: produce force against resistance for a countable number of repetitions, and progress the resistance over time.
What you need
No equipment at all. The resistance is your own bodyweight, so you progress by changing leverage, range or tempo rather than by adding plates — and you can do it anywhere.
Every exercise using:Body only
These train the abdominals too, using equipment this one does not:
- Ab Crunch Machinemachine
- Ab Rollout on Knees with Barbellbarbell
- Advanced Kettlebell Windmillkettlebell
- Bosu Ball Cable Crunch With Side Bendscable
- Crunches with Legs on Stability Ballexercise ball
Difficulty
Listed at beginner level: the pattern is simple enough to pick up without coaching, and a position that goes wrong mid-set is obvious enough to correct on the next repetition.
Of the 97 abdominals exercises in this database, 69 are listed at beginner level.
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