How to Do the Otis-Up
💪 Abdominals, Chest, Shoulders, Triceps🏋️ Other📊 Beginner🏷️ Strength
How to perform it
- Secure your feet and lay back on the floor. Your knees should be bent. Hold a weight with both hands to your chest. This will be your starting position.
- Initiate the movement by flexing the hips and spine to raise your torso up from the ground.
- As you move up, press the weight up so that it is above your head at the top of the movement.
- Return the weight to your chest as you reverse the sit-up motion, ensuring not to go all the way down to the floor.
Muscles worked
The Otis-Up primarily targets your Abdominals, with support from your Chest, Shoulders, Triceps. You'll need other.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Otis-Up slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.