Legs · Bodyweight · Compound · Beginner
Moving Claw Series
PrimarySecondary
- Main muscles
- Hamstrings
- Also working
- Calves, Quads
How to do it
- This move helps prepare your running form to help you excel at sprinting. As you run, be sure to flex the knee, aiming to kick your glutes as the hip extends.
- Reload the quad as the leg moves back forward, attacking the ground on the next step.
- Ensure that as you run, you block with the arms, punching through in a rapid 1-2 motion.
Swaps on other equipment
Each has the hamstrings as its main muscle, on a different piece of equipment.
Other hamstring exercises
- Lunge Pass Through · Kettlebell
- Lying Hamstring · Other
- Lying Leg Curls · Machine
- Muscle Snatch · Barbell
- Natural Glute Ham Raise · Bodyweight
- One-Arm Kettlebell Clean · Kettlebell
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