Exercise · Form & cues
Mountain Climber — form guide
Core · Hip Flexors · Engine. Equipment: Bodyweight. Difficulty: Beginner.
TEMPO
Fast · cyclic
Hips stay LOW and LEVEL with your shoulders. Pikes turn this into hip-flexor work, not core.
Cues
- Plank, drive knees to chest one at a time
- Stay on the balls of your feet
- Hips don't bounce up
Common mistakes
- Hips piking up
- Half-range knee drives
Injury notes
Wrist pain → forearm or elevated variant.
Progression
Add tempo (slow + fast intervals) or cross-body knee drives.