Front Lever Pull-Up
oec:front-lever-pull-up
An advanced calisthenics exercise where you hold a horizontal front lever and pull your chest up to the bar or rings.
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Also called: Front Lever Row, FL Pull-Up
How to do it
Setup
- Grip a pull-up bar or gymnastics rings with an overhand, shoulder-width grip.
- Engage your lats and core to raise your entire body into a fully horizontal front lever position, parallel to the floor from shoulders to heels.
Movement
- Maintain a rigid horizontal body line as you drive your elbows back and pull your hips and chest upward toward the bar.
- Continue pulling until your lower chest or abdomen touches or nears the bar.
- Lower yourself under full control back into the straight-arm front lever position without breaking body alignment.
Breathing
Inhale as you stabilize into the lever; exhale forcefully as you pull your chest to the bar, and inhale as you lower.
Cues
- Drive elbows toward the hips
- Squeeze glutes and point toes
- Keep the body completely flat
Common faults
- Piking at the hips to reduce the lever arm.
- Squeeze the glutes and core to keep a completely straight line from ankles to shoulders throughout the pull.
- Dropping the hips below the shoulders during the concentric phase.
- Actively pull down with the lats and maintain abdominal tension so the torso and legs rise together.
Safety
- Ensure the pull-up bar or ceiling mount is securely anchored.
- Master the static front lever hold before attempting dynamic rows.
Muscles
Joints
- Shoulder: Extension, Horizontal abduction
- Elbow: Flexion
- Shoulder blade: Retraction, Depression
- Lumbar spine: Isometric stabilization
- Hip: Isometric stabilization
Details
- Movement
- Horizontal pull, Anti-extension
- Modality
- Calisthenics, Strength
- Mechanics
- compound
- Force
- pull
- Laterality
- bilateral
- Kinetic chain
- closed
- Level
- advanced
- Equipment
- Pull-up bar or Gymnastic rings
- Record
- Repetitions
- Load
- bodyweight
Related
- progression of Front Lever
- progression of Inverted Row
Sources
- wger: Front lever pull-up, by clafal (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
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