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Isometric hold · Advanced

Full Front Lever

Isolation isometric hold exercise using bodyweight, pull-up bar.
Movement pattern
Isometric hold
Difficulty
Advanced
Equipment
Bodyweight, Pull-up bar
Mechanics
Isolation
Sides
Bilateral
Main plane
Sagittal

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How to do the Full Front Lever

Cues reviewed by Kwabena Osei on

Setup

Hang from a bar with straight, locked arms.

  1. Pull your entire body straight, rigid, and horizontal, face-up, with your legs straight and together -- this is the longest version of the lever and the hardest to hold.

  2. Brace your abs and glutes maximally to prevent your hips from sagging or your body from piking.

  3. Train short, fresh holds -- don't chase duration at the cost of form breaking down.

Common mistakes

  • Attempting this before comfortably holding a narrow straddle front lever -- this is an elite skill reached by progressive narrowing, not a starting point.

  • Letting the body pike (hips higher than shoulders/ankles) instead of staying in one straight line.

Muscles worked

Primary

Secondary

How the knowledge graph models this movement

Each joint action, with the role and emphasis the graph assigns each muscle. These are qualitative anatomical labels, not measured muscle activation.

  • Shoulder extensionprimary action · resisted

    Latissimus dorsi (prime mover, high emphasis); Teres major (synergist, moderate emphasis)

  • Scapula depressionsecondary action

    Rhomboids (synergist, moderate emphasis)

  • Hip extensionsecondary action · resisted

    Gluteus maximus (stabilizer, high emphasis); Rectus abdominis (stabilizer, high emphasis)

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