Straddle Side Lever Pull

The Straddle Side Lever Pull is a side-lever or human flag progression. It gradually allows an athlete to strengthen their obliques and articulate their shoulder movements.

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

Straddle Side Lever Pull

1. Begin from an inverted side lever block with your left hand on bottom.
2. Keeping a straight body with posterior pelvic tilt (PPT), straddle wide by pulling your right leg away from the bars.
3. As you straddle, press away from the stall bars and begin to twist open 90-degrees to your right side.
4. Straddle and lower as far as you can while keeping your left foot in contact with the bars and maintain straight elbows throughout.
5. To stabilize your body and prevent drifting sideways, press strongly into your left hand (depress) and pull with your right (elevate).
6. Pause momentarily in your lowest position, pull back up to the inverted side lever block (closing the straddle), and repeat for reps before switching sides.

• Exercise: Inverted Side Lever Block
• Type of Exercise: Strength
• Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
• Difficulty: Advanced
• Equipment: Stall Bars

• Exercise: Closed Side Lever Pull
• Type of Exercise: Strength
• Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
• Difficulty: Advanced
• Equipment: Stall Bars