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Arch Body Hold

The Arch Body Hold is a great exercise to activate your traps, straighten your handstand line, and correct posture.

  • Type Of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Glutes, Lower Back, Middle Back, Shoulders, Trapezius
  • Difficulty: Moderate
  • Equipment: Body Only

Arch Body Hold

  1. Start lying on your stomach with your arms overhead and feet together.
  2. Extend your body as much as possible by locking your elbows, shrugging your shoulders to your ears, straightening your knees, and pointing your toes.
  3. Engage your glutes and lift your hands off the ground.
  4. Now lift your upper and lower body up as high as possible without bending your elbows or knees.
  5. Look up slightly, keep shrugging your shoulders, and hold for time.
  6. Aim to keep your upper and lower body at the same height throughout the set.
  • Exercise: Side Arch Body Rock
  • Type of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Abdominals
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Equipment: Body Only
  • Exercise: Arch Body Rock
  • Type of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Glutes, Lower Back, Middle Back, Shoulders, Trapezius
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Equipment: Body Only