Popliteus
Anatomy, function and the kettlebell exercises that train the popliteus.
- Body region
- Knee (posterior)
- Muscle group
- Knee Stabilizers
What the popliteus does
Unlocks knee from full extension, internal rotation of tibia.
Kettlebell exercises that train the popliteus
25 exercises from our biomechanical library, ordered by how primarily they load this muscle.
- Bridgestabilizer
- Single Arm Push Pressstabilizer
- Single Arm Dead Snatchstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Sots Press with Rotationstabilizer
- Double Arm Crunch and Reachstabilizer
- Single Arm Crunchstabilizer
- Ninety-Ninety Windmillstabilizer
- Single Arm Dead Start Swingsnatchstabilizer
- Sots Press with Supportstabilizer
- Cross Crunchstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Crunchstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Sportstyle Push Pressstabilizer
- Single Arm Hardstyle Half Snatch (StrongFirst)stabilizer
- Single Arm Hip Hinge Full Snatchstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Open Palm Swingcleanstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Staggered Stance Deadliftstabilizer
- Woodchopperstabilizer
- Double Arm Deadliftstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Half Snatchstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Sumo Deadliftstabilizer
- Single Arm Surrenderstabilizer
- Double Kettlebell Static Squat Dead Curlsecondary
- Single Arm Sportstyle Jerksecondary
- Double Kettlebell Sportstyle Jerksecondary
- Double Arm Static Squat Dead Curlsecondary
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