Inchworm

HamstringsBodyweightBeginnerCompound
Inchworm — start position
Start
Inchworm — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryHamstrings

How to do it

  1. 01

    Stand with your feet close together. Keeping your legs straight, stretch down and put your hands on the floor directly in front of you. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Begin by walking your hands forward slowly, alternating your left and your right. As you do so, bend only at the hip, keeping your legs straight.

  3. 03

    Keep going until your body is parallel to the ground in a pushup position.

  4. 04

    Now, keep your hands in place and slowly take short steps with your feet, moving only a few inches at a time.

  5. 05

    Continue walking until your feet are by hour hands, keeping your legs straight as you do so.

In the app

Inchworm needs no kit, so it appears whenever the day's window has room for it. Its minutes come from Rule 2 (Sessions are built to fit, never guaranteed, graded product): the window sets how long it runs, never the other way round.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

Same pattern, with kit

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With bodyweight

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