Legs · Bodyweight
Side Step Boxing Handroll
How to do the side step boxing handroll, 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
- Lunge
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Stand in a light athletic stance and step side to side. As you step, circle your forearms around each other in a continuous boxing handroll in front of your chest, keeping your feet light and the rhythm steady.
- 1Legs and glutes driving the side-to-side steps
- 2Shoulders and arms working through the continuous handroll
- 3Light, quick feet with an upright posture
Common mistakes
- Letting your feet get heavy or flat on the steps
- Hunching forward as you roll your arms
- Slowing the handroll so it stops being continuous
Muscles worked
The side step boxing handroll mainly works the quads, with the glutes, forearms, hamstrings, calves, front delts, and adductors assisting.
- QuadsPrimary
- GlutesSupport
- ForearmsSupport
- HamstringsSupport
- CalvesSupport
- Front DeltsSupport
- AdductorsSupport
- BicepsMinor
- Upper AbsMinor
- Lower AbsMinor
- ObliquesMinor
- Side DeltsMinor
- Hip FlexorsMinor
- Tibialis AnteriorMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.