Exercise library / Core
Reverse plank
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: Lower back, Glutes.
Secondary: Hamstrings, Rear delts.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Omvendt planke
- Svenska Omvänd planka
- Dansk Omvendt planke
- Deutsch Umgekehrter Unterarmstütz
- Español Plancha invertida
- Italiano Plank inverso
- Português Prancha invertida
- Русский Обратная планка
- Français Planche inversée
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