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Turkish get-up, step by step

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  1. 1

    Set up on your back.

    Press the bell over your right shoulder, arm locked. Right knee bent, left arm and leg out at 45°.

    • Learn it with a shoe balanced on your fist
    • Eyes on the bell from here on
  2. 2

    Roll to the elbow.

    Punch the bell toward the ceiling and roll onto your left elbow. A roll, not a sit-up.

  3. 3

    Post to the hand.

    Straighten onto your left hand. Chest open, bell stacked over the shoulder.

  4. 4

    Bridge the hips.

    Lift the hips high: one straight line from hand to heel.

  5. 5

    Sweep to the knee.

    Thread the left leg back and under, landing in a stable half-kneel.

  6. 6

    Stand up.

    Square the back shin, then stand through the lunge. Bell locked overhead the whole way.

  7. 7

    Reverse every step.

    Same path backward: lunge, sweep, bridge, hand, elbow, floor. That is one rep.

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