CalisthenicsIn review

Sliding Leg Curl

A hamstring curl on the floor: the hips stay up while both heels slide out and back.

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Pattern: Knee flexion
Modality: Calisthenics
Difficulty: Beginner
Mechanic: Unknown
Force: Unknown
Laterality: Bilateral
Impact: Low
Trains where: Gym, Home
At home: Yes

How to do it

Set up

Lie on your back with the heels on sliders or in socks near the hips.
Lift the hips into a bridge.

Do the rep

Keep the hips up and slide the heels away until the legs are nearly straight.
Pull the heels back toward the hips with the backs of the thighs.

What counts as a rep

A rep counts when the heels slide out and back with the hips up the whole time.

One rep starts in a bridge with the heels near the hips, slides the heels out until the legs are nearly straight, and pulls them back with the hips up.

Breathing

Inhale as the heels slide out; exhale as you pull them back.

Cues

Keep the hips high.
Slide the heels out slowly.
Slide out more slowly when the reps get easy.

Common mistakes

Dropping the hips
What you seeThe hips sink toward the floor as the heels slide out.
FixSlide out less far and keep the glutes tight.
High hips keep the load on the hamstrings.
Fast slide out
What you seeThe heels shoot away and the legs lock straight.
FixControl the slide out at a steady speed.
The slow phase protects the hamstrings.

Stop the set if

Stop if you feel sharp pain.
Stop if you feel a cramp or a sudden pull in the back of the thigh.
End the set when you cannot keep the hips up.

General educational content, not individual coaching or medical advice.

Muscles worked

Prime movers

Hamstrings · moderate confidence

Assisting

Glutes · moderate confidence
Calves · moderate confidence
Deep core / trunk stabilizers · moderate confidence

Equipment

Bodyweight

Use a smooth, hard floor. Wear socks, or place a slider under each heel.

In the app

You log this by hand. The camera coach does not watch this movement yet.

Tracking: Camera candidate

How this page was checked

Draft. A editorial reviewer has not signed this off yet.

Draft text is original copy for Wave 2 batch 3, written from the blueprint CSV row and the Wave 2 rules page of 2026-10-12. No human review is complete.
Technique, cues, rep standard, breathing, stop cues, and error corrections need independent sources and the assigned review tier (blueprint two-source rule).
Programming roles, skill tier, failure cost, timed use, goal fit, and equipment follow the rules page; the switch-on PR must confirm them.
Anatomy uses the CSV planning hints; the assigned review tier must confirm it.
Legacy relations and engine edges stay empty until the progression ladder lane and S2-CAT-005.
Timed use and goal fit copy ex_seated_leg_curl, the closest Wave 1 record.
Exception to rule 2: the CSV says hinge. The knees bend and the hips stay straight, so the record uses the knee-flexion pattern and the isolation_target role (rule 2, knee isolation), as ex_seated_leg_curl.
Skill tier and failure cost follow rule 3: beginner, low.
The slide needs socks or a slider on a smooth, hard floor. A slider is not a picker item, so this is setup text (rule 1). On carpet the exercise does not work; the switch-on PR must decide if home plans may pick it.
The CSV allows duration. The record is reps only.
The CSV muscle list is the family hint; the record lists the hamstrings first and drops the quadriceps.

All instruction and editorial text in this record is original draft copy written for Allena. Planning metadata comes from the internal Wave-2 blueprint CSV.

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