L Sit Tuck on Parallel Bar exercise – Mover.tips

Focused on abs and upper body, holding this position for a couple of minutes is a demanding exercise.

Video demonstration

(excerpt from ‘Tuck Hold on Parallel Bars’ by TotalTaiso)

How to and step by step instructions:

1. Stand on parallel bars raising your feet of the ground.
2. Keep your arms straight and shoulders pressed down, your ears away from the shoulders.
3. Bring your knees close to chest, toes pointing straight to the floor in a ballerina position.
4. Count the seconds you can hold the position.

Hints & tips:

• Prepare your shoulders and triceps holding the bar up to one minute, regardless the legs position.
• Press your shoulders down, moving your ears away from the shoulders.

Benefits:

• Strengthen shoulders and core.
• Good preparation for the L Sit on the bars.

Counting & gamification:

• Count the seconds you can hold, accumulating in a period (session, day, week).
• Set an accumulated goal for a workout session, say 60 seconds, and do the necessary repetitions to reach that goal.

Muscles worked and body parts involved:

Muscles: Core & Upper body

Primary muscles: Shoulder, Triceps, Abs, Lats

Secondary muscles: Obliques, Lowerback, Hip Flexor, Quads

Other names

The exercise can be found with other names. Examples are:

• L Sit Tuck on Parallel Bar
• Knee Tuck on Parallel Bar

Muscle: Core and Upper body

L Sit Tuck on Double Chair See 22 Core and Upper Body exercises

Collection: L Sit Friendly

Supported L Sit Scapula Shrugs See the 33 exercises collection L Sit Friendly

Category: Bodyweight

Bent Leg Mixed Grip Body Row Corner Seated L Sit Position Floor L Sit Back and Forth See 132 exercises for category Bodyweight

Same exercise, different set:

L Sit Tuck on Double Chair L Sit Tuck on Parallel Bar