The High Plank Climber is a demanding overall exercise that focuses on the abdominals, while adding the enjoyment of stabilizing yourself with your shoulders and triceps.
Online Personal Training Video: High Plank Climber
How To Do It
1. Assume the high plank position. The high plank position is the starting pushup position, Your elbows and hands should be directly below your shoulders to provide a stable base. Your body should be rigid, as if a steel bar is running from your ankles to your shoulders.
2. Keeping your left foot and elbows planted to the ground, bring your right knee (bending your leg, of course) as far forward as you can. To do this, activate your gluteals to achieve a path to the side of your body, not below it.
3. Hold for an instant with your knee far forward, then return your leg to the starting plank position, using the reverse path.
4. Repeat the motion with your left leg. That’s one rep.
5. Continue, alternating legs.
Online Personal Trainer Tip
1. The motion of your leg is a lot like when you were a kid (or at least when I was), pretending you were doing an “army crawl” along the ground, the difference being that neither your belly nor your right knee should touch the ground. Your torso, midsection and legs should remain in a flat plane.
