Hanging Front Lever Raise

The Hanging Front Lever Raise is a challenging exercise that targets your core and upper body strength.

To perform this exercise:

  1. Hang from a pull-up bar with an overhand grip.
  2. Engage your core and pull your legs up towards your chest.
  3. Extend your legs out in front of you, keeping your body straight.
  4. Lower your legs back down to the starting position with control.

How to perform the Hanging Front Lever Raise

  1. Set up. Set up in a stable, balanced starting position appropriate for the Hanging Front Lever Raise using your leverage machine.
  2. Brace and execute. Brace your core, control the descent, and move through a full pain-free range of motion while emphasizing your abdominals.
  3. Reset. Reverse the movement under control and reset between repetitions, keeping your form crisp on every rep.

Coaching cues

  • Move with intent — every rep should feel deliberate, not rushed.
  • Drive force through your abdominals rather than momentum.
  • Keep your breathing steady: exhale on the hard part, inhale on the reset.

Common mistakes

  • Using too much weight and losing positional control.
  • Cutting the range of motion short and missing the target muscle.
  • Letting your spine round or hyperextend instead of staying neutral.

Detailed cues, common mistakes, and demonstration video are available in the Fitly app.

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