How to Front Lever
What?
Front Lever is a calisthenic movement which heavily utilizes your abdominals. Furthermore, the exercise engages your whole core your lower back has to stay engaged and you are also working your lats.
How?
Hold the bar or rings with your hands keeping your arms straight. Maintaining a strong isometric contraction through your core bring your body to a horizontal position. This requires a great deal of strength and coordination.
Trying To Master The Exercise?
If you are completely new to the exercise and ab training make sure you are comfortable holding a plank position this will help to train your abdominals in an isometric contraction.
Try practicing the exercise from the top
- Get into an inverted hang position ( Feet up, head towards the ground) on a pull-up bar or gym rings.
- slowly lower your body until it is completely horizontal (your body facing the sky or ceiling).
- Maintain the hold as long as good form will allow.
From the Bottum
- Hang from the bar with straight arms
- slowly raise your body to a horizontal position and back down
- Repeat without holding when you are horizontal untill you can build up the strength to hold the horizontal position
Watch the Video below
More exercises to build up your strength
Learning how to do a front lever requires strength! Add some of these exercises into your program to help develop the required muscles
- Plank
- Pull-ups (work to weighted pull-ups
- Inverted Row
- Tuck Lever
