Legs · Bodyweight
Celebratory Knee Drives
How to do the celebratory knee drives, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Logged as
- time
- Movement
- Flexion
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Stand tall and drive one knee up toward your chest while pumping the opposite arm, as if celebrating a win. Quickly switch and drive the other knee up, keeping a light bounce on the balls of your feet. Keep a steady, upbeat rhythm and stay tall through your torso.
- 1Feel your hip flexors snap each knee up toward your chest
- 2Stay light on the balls of your feet with a quick rhythm
- 3Keep your core braced and your torso tall as you drive
Common mistakes
- Do not hunch forward to meet your knee
- Avoid landing heavy and flat-footed
- Do not let your lower back round as you lift the knee
Muscles worked
The celebratory knee drives mainly works the hip flexors and calves, with the lower abs, quads, upper abs, obliques, glutes, and hamstrings assisting.
- Hip FlexorsPrimary
- CalvesPrimary
- Lower AbsSupport
- QuadsSupport
- Upper AbsSupport
- ObliquesSupport
- GlutesSupport
- HamstringsSupport
- Front DeltsMinor
- Tibialis AnteriorMinor
Kovo programs the celebratory knee drives for you and tracks it every session.
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More hips & adductors exercises
- How to do the butterfly stretch
- How to do the external rotation
- How to do the cable hip adduction
- How to do the internal rotation
- How to do the cobra pose
- How to do the core scrunch
Last reviewed June 2026.