Full body · MOBILITY

KB Windmill — bottom hold

Hip hinge, thoracic rotation and an overhead shoulder held in one shape

Coaching cues

How to do it well

These are the cues the app shows on the exercise card, written for the moment you are standing in front of the bar.

  • Eyes on the bell the whole way
  • Push the hip away, do not fold the chest down
  • Hold at the bottom
Tempo
5s to lower
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In the program

How Train Smart prescribes it

The sets and reps below are the authored starting point. The actual weight you see is calculated from your own last top set and the week you are in within your four-week block.

ProgramSessionSets × repsLoad
MMAExplosive Power + Posterior2 × 15s/sideLight KB overhead

How the weight is calculated →

At a glance

What it trains, and who trains it

Muscles worked
Quads · Glutes
Region
Full body
Classified as
MOBILITY
Prescribed in
MMA

This exercise, in a program that knows why it is there

Train Smart puts this movement in the right session, at the right point in your block, at a weight calculated for you — and swaps it automatically if you do not have the kit.

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