Mark OttobreFounder, Enterprise Fitness · Results Driven Coaching

How To Do Hanging Leg Raises

8 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise instructional video, fitness instructor Mark Ottobre demonstrates the hanging leg raise exercise. He explains the essential equipment—a pull‑up bar where the feet cannot touch the floor—and walks through three execution levels: an advanced straight‑leg raise with toes pointed, a standard full‑range raise, and an easier regression where the knees are bent and brought to the chest. Throughout, he emphasizes that the movement primarily works the abdominal muscles, especially the lower abs, and encourages viewers to try the exercise.

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This is hanging leg raise. What you need is a bar, preferably where your feet cannot touch the floor. For very advanced, you're going to point your toes and you're going to come up in this position here. This is your hanging leg raise. If we want to make it a little regress and a little easier, we can bend the knees and come up all the way. So we want our knees to our chest. Again, we're trying to work the abs when we do this. People say this really works the lower abs, and it does. And up all the way. So give it a go, hanging leg raise.