Mountain Climbers

QuadsBodyweightBeginnerCompound
Mountain Climbers — start position
Start
Mountain Climbers — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryQuads
SecondaryChest, Hamstrings, Shoulders

How to do it

  1. 01

    Begin in a pushup position, with your weight supported by your hands and toes. Flexing the knee and hip, bring one leg until the knee is approximately under the hip. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Explosively reverse the positions of your legs, extending the bent leg until the leg is straight and supported by the toe, and bringing the other foot up with the hip and knee flexed. Repeat in an alternating fashion for 20-30 seconds.

In the app

Mountain Climbers 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 other
With machine
With bodyweight

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