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Hold the handles in your hands, extend your arms and keep them parallel at chest height. The movement you need to perform is to open your arms in line with your shoulders while leaning your body forward. Try not to extend your shoulders beyond 90°, and keep your abdominal muscles and glutes contracted. Muscles involved: transverse abdominis, rectus abdominis and spinal erectors.
Muscles
Primary muscles
- Abs (rectus abdominis)
Secondary muscles
- Obliques
- Serratus anterior
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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: wger.de, admin, cynomops). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).