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What Are Knee Pull Ins?
A great exercise for working your abs as well as tone your legs are Knee Pull Ins.
To perform this effective, yet simple workout all you have to do is sit on the floor slightly leaning back with your hands planted at your sides.
Extend your legs out in front of you and pull them in. Repeat this movement with a high tempo.
What Are the Benefits?
- Help strengthen your core, legs, and ankles
- Make your inner thighs look firmer
- Improve balance
- Best for: Sitting all day long
- Weight: One hand, nine to 10 pounds
What Muscles Do Leg Pull Ins Work?
- Legs
- Calves
- Quads
- Hams
- Glutes
- Abdominals
How Do You Do a Lying Knee Pull?
Place your hands on the floor at your sides, feet shoulder-width apart, and knees stacked over your ankles.
Flex your knees, lift your legs up, and pull them in, while raising your hips and simultaneously squeezing the glutes of the calves.
Try this combo every day to see visible results in your abs, glutes, and leg muscles!
- Isn’t it time you gave yourself some rest?
- Exhausted and sick of doing the same old thing?
- Bored with the workouts you are doing?
- Looking to give yourself a major challenge to see if you have what it takes to go to the next level?
Knee pull ins is an exercise that targets your hamstrings, glutes and back muscles.
It also strengthens the core by requiring you to brace yourself as you bring your legs in with control before extending it out again.
The best part about this exercise is that you can do it anywhere! Try adding this exercise into your workout routine for an added challenge (and amazing results).