Lever Standing Hip Extension

Stand upright with your feet shoulder-width apart and engage your core. Hold onto the lever apparatus with both hands for support.

  1. Extend one leg straight back, keeping your knee slightly bent.
  2. Focus on squeezing your glutes as you lift your leg to hip level.
  3. Lower your leg back to the starting position and repeat.

How to perform the Lever Standing Hip Extension

  1. Set up. Set up in a stable, balanced starting position appropriate for the Lever Standing Hip Extension 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 triceps.
  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 triceps 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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