Intermediate exercise

Bottoms Up

  • Muscle Growth
  • Bodybuilding

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Technique

How to perform Bottoms Up

  1. Lie on your back with your arms beside you and your legs straight.
  2. Bend your hips and knees to bring your knees toward your chest.
  3. Curl your pelvis toward your ribs to lift your hips from the floor.
  4. Extend your legs toward the ceiling while keeping the lift controlled rather than swinging.
  5. Bend the knees again and unroll your pelvis onto the floor.
  6. Extend and lower the legs under control to the starting position.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Rectus Abdominis.

MuscleScoreRole
Rectus Abdominis1.0Target, Mover