Skills Elite
Rank #84 of 100
Straddle Planche
A planche with the legs spread wide to shorten the lever — the key milestone before the full planche.
- Equipment
- Floor or parallettes
- Focus
- Gravity-defying static holds and balance feats.
Muscles worked
- Front Delts
- Chest
- Core
- Biceps
How to do it well
- 1 Spread the legs as wide as possible.
- 2 Maintain a hard forward lean throughout.
- 3 Build from advanced-tuck planche holds.
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