Core · Bodyweight
Side Plank Single Knee Drive
How to do the side plank single knee drive, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Logged as
- time
- Movement
- Isometric
- Mechanic
- Isolation
How to do it
Set up in a side plank on your forearm with your body in a straight line and hips lifted. Drive your top knee up toward your chest, then extend it back out to the start, keeping the hips high throughout the reps.
- 1Feel your obliques work to keep the hips lifted
- 2Feel the hip flexor pull the top knee toward your chest
- 3Keep your bottom shoulder stacked over the elbow
Common mistakes
- Don't let your hips drop toward the floor
- Avoid rotating your torso forward as the knee drives
- Don't let the supporting shoulder collapse
Muscles worked
The side plank single knee drive mainly works the obliques and lower abs, with the glutes, hip flexors, lower back, upper abs, side delts, and adductors assisting.
- ObliquesPrimary
- Lower AbsPrimary
- GlutesSupport
- Hip FlexorsSupport
- Lower BackSupport
- Upper AbsSupport
- Side DeltsSupport
- AdductorsSupport
- ForearmsMinor
- LatsMinor
- Upper TrapsMinor
- Mid TrapsMinor
- Lower TrapsMinor
- QuadsMinor
- HamstringsMinor
- Front DeltsMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.