Levers are extremely hard but beneficial to muscle growth since they're very heavy on the time under tension which breaks your muscles down and causes them to grow in calisthenics.
The difficulty of this move is somewhat advanced. It works out your biceps, forearms, mid and lower back, as well as your pectorals and frontal deltoids. There's similarity in this and the back handed planche. This is just from a hanging position which makes it about half as hard.
My advised prerequisites for the back lever are a fair number of pull ups. A good twenty five in a row would do it. Then some flip around stuff on the bar and such. Get comfortable on the pull up bar and develop some good calluses. This is a high strain move. Not quite as difficult as the front lever because your back muscles holding your lower body up tend to be far stronger than your abdominals and obliques which are used in the front lever.
Back Lever:
You can either use an overhand grip or an underhand grip in the front lever. Perform so by circling around while hanging from the bar until you are still holding on but with your back facing towards the bar. Now to fully perform the back lever you may straddle your legs at first, but I started with them straight together, and extend them until your body is at a full extension.
The hand placement will support you, so make sure your arms go far back, your hands should be right above your posterior. Make sure your biceps are strong so you don't hyper-extend or pull anything.
Your back levers will be high at first, but you're okay with that because they get better and lower with time until you hold a nice and straight one. Good luck!
-The Fitness Cookie
Back Lever:
You can either use an overhand grip or an underhand grip in the front lever. Perform so by circling around while hanging from the bar until you are still holding on but with your back facing towards the bar. Now to fully perform the back lever you may straddle your legs at first, but I started with them straight together, and extend them until your body is at a full extension.
The hand placement will support you, so make sure your arms go far back, your hands should be right above your posterior. Make sure your biceps are strong so you don't hyper-extend or pull anything.
Your back levers will be high at first, but you're okay with that because they get better and lower with time until you hold a nice and straight one. Good luck!
-The Fitness Cookie
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