Atlas Stones

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Atlas Stones — Other Lower Back exercise demonstration
Atlas Stones — Other Lower Back exercise demonstration
Body part
Back
Target
Lower Back
Equipment
Other
Secondary
Abdominals, Adductors, Biceps, Calves, Forearms, Glutes, Hamstrings, Middle Back, Quadriceps, Trapezius

Instructions

  1. 1Begin with the atlas stone between your feet. Bend at the hips to wrap your arms vertically around the Atlas Stone, attempting to get your fingers underneath the stone. Many stones will have a small flat portion on the bottom, which will make the stone easier to hold.
  2. 2Pulling the stone into your torso, drive through the back half of your feet to pull the stone from the ground.
  3. 3As the stone passes the knees, lap it by sitting backward, pulling the stone on top of your thighs.
  4. 4Sit low, getting the stone high onto your chest as you change your grip to reach over the stone. Stand, driving through with your hips. Close distance to the loading platform, and lean back, extending the hips to get the stone as high as possible.

Get this via the API

This exercise — and the full catalog of 873 — as structured JSON.

GET /v1/exercises/{slug}
curl -H "X-API-Key: wk_live_…" \
  "https://api.work-out-db.com/v1/exercises/atlas-stones"

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mechanic
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Response

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