Main Muscles Affected
- Legs
- Abdominal muscles
Exercise Difficulty
Medium difficulty
Performing the advanced crossover mountain climber:
- Get into a push-up position
- Keep your arms straight and your body still by creating a straight line from head to toe
- Push your toes back and forth bringing your knees to your chest as fast as you can (alternate right and left leg for the time or number of repetitions needed)
- Return to the starting position and perform, trying to keep the body still and straight, jumps to the right and to the left with the feet together (or simply move with the feet all the way to the right and then all the left)
- Return to the center
- Brace yourself with your arms and jump forward into a squat position
- Jump as high as possible.
- Lift your buttocks too much when moving your feet back and forth.