Toes to Bar
Trains the abdominals. No equipment needed. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
In the programs
None of our programs use the Toes to Bar
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a abdominals exercise that is, there are 9 on the Abdominals page.
Muscles worked
What Toes to Bar trains
Technique
How to do the Toes to Bar
- Hang from a pull-up bar with an overhand grip, hands shoulder-width apart, and your arms fully extended.
- Engage your core and pull your shoulder blades down, then raise your legs by flexing your hips and abdominals.
- Continue lifting your legs, keeping them as straight as possible, until your toes touch the bar.
- Lower your legs back to the hanging position with control. Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Control the lowering phase to avoid swinging and to keep tension on your abdominals.
- Initiate the movement from your core rather than kicking with momentum.
- Exhale as you raise your legs and inhale as you lower them.
- If full toes-to-bar is too difficult, build up with hanging knee raises first.
Substitutes
Swap Toes to Bar for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run the Toes to Bar for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.