Butt-Ups
Trains the Abs.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Mechanic
- Compound
- Force
- Pull
- Level
- Beginner
How to do it
- Start in a forearm plank with your elbows under your shoulders and your body in one line.
- Brace your stomach.
- Push the hips up and back toward the ceiling, letting the shoulders travel back over the elbows.
- Go until the body makes a shallow inverted V, keeping the back flat.
- Return under control to the flat plank position.
- Do not let the hips drop below the line on the way back.
Common mistakes
- Rounding the back to get the hips higher. The spine stays flat; the movement comes from the shoulders and hips, and a rounded back is the range being faked.
- Letting the hips sag at the bottom. The return ends in a plank, not below it, and that is where the trunk has to hold.
- Pushing back onto the toes. The feet stay put and the shoulders travel; walking the feet in shortens the movement to nothing.
- Treating it as a shoulder exercise. The shoulders travel but they are not loaded through a range — this is the trunk moving between two held positions.