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How to Do Wind Sprints

Step-by-step instructions, muscles worked and workouts that use the wind sprints.

How to do it

1. Hang from a pull-up bar using a pronated grip. Your arms and legs should be extended. This will be your starting position.
2. Begin by quickly raising one knee as high as you can. Do not swing your body or your legs. 3
3. Immediately reverse the motion, returning that leg to the starting position. Simultaneously raise the opposite knee as high as possible.
4. Continue alternating between legs until the set is complete.

Form tips

• Start light and own the movement before adding weight.
• Control the lowering phase — don't drop into it.
• Keep breathing; exhale on the hardest part.
• Stop if you feel sharp pain (different from muscle burn).

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Exercise photos and instructions: free-exercise-db (public domain). Animation made from the real start and end photos.