Core · Bodyweight
Plank Power Tuck
How to do the plank power tuck, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Logged as
- Reps
- Movement
- Flexion
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Start in a high plank with your body straight and core braced. Explosively hop both feet forward toward your hands into a tucked position, then jump them back out to the plank. Keep a quick, controlled rhythm.
- 1Core and hip flexors snapping your knees in toward your chest
- 2Shoulders bracing hard to support each jump
- 3A controlled landing back into a flat plank
Common mistakes
- Letting your hips shoot up high as you tuck
- Landing heavy or losing the plank line on the way back
- Letting your shoulders drift behind your wrists
Muscles worked
The plank power tuck mainly works the lower abs, upper abs, and hip flexors, with the obliques, quads, front delts, triceps, glutes, and calves assisting.
- Lower AbsPrimary
- Upper AbsPrimary
- Hip FlexorsPrimary
- ObliquesSupport
- QuadsSupport
- Front DeltsSupport
- TricepsSupport
- GlutesSupport
- CalvesSupport
- ForearmsMinor
- Mid ChestMinor
- LatsMinor
- Upper TrapsMinor
- HamstringsMinor
- Tibialis AnteriorMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.