Glutes · Body weight · Intermediate

How to do Push-up Inside Leg Kick

The push-up inside leg kick is a dynamic bodyweight exercise that combines a standard push-up with a lateral leg kick, targeting the glutes and engaging the core, quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves. It requires coordination, balance, and strength.

Push-up Inside Leg Kick demonstration
Primary muscle
Glutes
Also works
Quadriceps, Hamstrings, Calves and Core
Equipment
Body weight
Level
Intermediate
Category
Legs

How to do Push-up Inside Leg Kick, step by step

  1. Start in a push-up position with your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart and your feet together.
  2. Lower your body towards the ground by bending your elbows, keeping your back straight and your core engaged.
  3. As you push back up, lift one leg off the ground and kick it out to the side, keeping it straight.
  4. Lower your leg back down and repeat the push-up, then switch to the other leg.
  5. Continue alternating leg kicks with each push-up repetition.

Muscles worked

Push-up Inside Leg Kick works your glutes as the main mover, with help from your quadriceps, hamstrings, calves and core.

Track Push-up Inside Leg Kick in SPLYT

Push-up Inside Leg Kick is already in SPLYT’s exercise library. Log your sets, reps and weight on iPhone or Apple Watch, with last time’s weights already filled in.

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