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Sit Up Elbow Thrust

Description

This is a top down rotation movement, and it’s a bit more explosive, too. Lying with knees bent and feet on the floor, sit up and then drive your left elbow across your entire body toward the right, then come back to center and then finally lower yourself down. Then hit the other side.

Muscles

Front
Back

Primary muscles

  • Obliques
  • Abs (rectus abdominis)

Secondary muscles

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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: wger.de, admin, Moffi). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).