Upper back · Body weight · Advanced
How to do Skin The Cat Advanced
Skin the cat is a gymnastic movement performed on a bar, where you hang, lift your legs over your head, rotate your body through your arms, and then return to the starting position. It requires significant upper body and core strength, as well as shoulder mobility and coordination.
- Primary muscle
- Upper back
- Also works
- Shoulders and Core
- Equipment
- Body weight
- Level
- Advanced
- Category
- Back
How to do Skin The Cat Advanced, step by step
- Start by hanging from a bar with your arms fully extended and your body relaxed.
- Engage your core and lift your legs up, bringing your knees towards your chest.
- advanced variation Continue to lift your legs up and over your head, allowing your body to pass through the arms.
- Once your legs are fully extended over your head, begin to lower them back down towards the starting position.
- As you lower your legs, allow your body to pass back through the arms until you are hanging with your arms fully extended again.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Muscles worked
Skin The Cat Advanced works your upper back as the main mover, with help from your shoulders and core.
Track Skin The Cat Advanced in SPLYT
Skin The Cat Advanced 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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