Body Weight Exercises: The Crab

Video Transcript

"I'm going to steal another one, don't tell anybody, from the Yoga-Pilates industry. This is called the Crab. Of course I put my little, you know, change factor into this. Now we do a lot of work for chest, right, the push up is chest, so we need to take the other side which would be rear deltoid and back and tricep and balance it out. This is called the Crab. You're going to come up here and this is your basic crab position, this alone maybe enough just holding this, 'cause it's body weight, body weight exercises. I can come up and oh my goodness, hamstring and gluts, back of my leg and butt muscle. Right? I can stay here and I can do some extensions. My leg that is supporting is really working. This one that I'm kicking out isn't working that much, really. I can stay here, I can really arch up, hold it and I can actually try to move with it, which is hard. Okay, you can actually move back and forth a little. Now get your heart rate up. Lot of variations on the crab. Good exercise, balances out the chest work which is important that we do both."