Exercise library / Core
Bear crawl
Core · Bodyweight
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Abs, Front delts.
Secondary: Quads.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Bjørnekryp
- Svenska Björngång
- Dansk Bjørnekravl
- Deutsch Bear Crawl
- Español Paso del oso
- Italiano Camminata dell'orso
- Português Caminhada do urso
- Русский Медвежья походка
- Français Marche de l'ours
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