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Side Lever Block Press

The Side Lever Block Press is a side lever progression, also known as the human flag. This drill helps you articulations the pressing movement through your shoulder girdle, as you extend your bodyweight outward.

  • Type Of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Equipment: Stall Bars

Side Lever Block Press

  1. Begin from a side lever block with your left hand on bottom.
  2. Press away from the bars and begin to twist open to your right.
  3. As you twist, place your left toes on the ground.
  4. Continue to push (depress) through your left shoulder and pull (elevate) through your right.
  5. When your torso has rotated a full 90-degrees, pause momentarily and check that your right leg is fully extended and that you still have a posterior pelvic tilt (PPT).
  6. Keep your position fixed and use your back and core muscles to pull your left leg off the floor and up to your right.
  7. Bring your legs together, pause briefly, and drop your left toes back down.
  8. Now begin to rotate back to the block position; as you twist back, lift your left toes back off the floor.
  9. Pause in the side lever block and repeat this sequence for reps before switching sides.
  • Exercise: Side Lever Block
  • Type of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Equipment: Stall Bars
  • Exercise: Inverted Side Lever Block
  • Type of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Equipment: Stall Bars