Mountain Climbers
Mountain Climbers is a compound plyometrics exercise that trains the quadriceps.
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Primary muscles: Quadriceps
Secondary muscles: Chest, Hamstrings, Shoulders
How to do it
- 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.
- 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.
Track it with MyoAmigo
MyoAmigo pre-fills every set of the Mountain Climbers from last time, charts your estimated 1RM trend so you can see strength move without testing a true max, and flags a stall with a concrete fix. It also credits this work toward your weekly Quadriceps volume on the MyoMap heatmap. New to the movement? Start with picking a working weight and progressive overload.
