# @Rogue Fitness on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=bibtw7ro8KE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34217476-Rogue-Fitness-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-05T18:53:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rogue Fitness (@RogueFitness) — https://gondola.cc/RogueFitness

## Caption

Rogue athlete Arielle Loewen demonstrates proper form for V-Ups in this quick and simple movement demo from Rogue HQ. 

The V-Up is a dynamic abdominal exercise where you lie flat and simultaneously raise your feet and torso to meet in the middle, forming a “V” shape with your body. It’s essentially a combination of a hollow body position + sit-up + leg raise. This movement is considered a step up from the sit-up and flutter kicks as it trains the abdominals and the hip flexors in a dynamic movement through a large range of motion.

Benefits
- Builds midline strength focussing on the abdominals and deeper core stabilizers.
- Builds hip flexor strength
- Trains timing between upper and lower body, therefore focussing on co-ordination
- Reinforces hollow body mechanics, helping with kipping pull-ups, toes-to-bar, and muscle-ups.
- No equipment required, effective with just bodyweight.
- Scalable & Progressive, easy to regress or progress depending on level.

Set Up
- Lie flat on your back, arms by your sides or hands under your hips for support.
- Press lower back into the floor and contract your abdominals, creating a hollow shape.

Execution
- Simultaneously lift legs and torso off the ground
- Legs remain straight, try to point the toes
- Arms start behind the head and can “swing” up
- Reach arms up and forward toward toes as legs lift.
- Aim to touch hands to feet, creating a “V” shape.
- Try and be balanced on the glutes
- Lower legs and torso back to starting position under control.
- Avoid arching your lower back or slamming down.

Regressions
- AbMat Sit Ups, build a base of abdominal strength
- Flutter kicks, build hip flexor strength and static core strength
- Tuck-Up, instead of straight legs, bend knees to chest while reaching arms forward.
- Single-Leg V-Up, alternate one leg at a time while keeping the other on the ground.
- Partial Range, only lift torso or legs partway if flexibility is limiting.

Progressions
- Weighted V-Up, hold a medicine ball, plate, or dumbbell overhead and/or wear ankle weights
- Paused V-Up, where the goal is to pause briefly at the top of the V position.

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