Legs · Bodyweight
Side Step Overhead Swing Side Leg Raise
How to do the side step overhead swing side leg raise, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Logged as
- Reps
- Movement
- Lunge
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Step to one side and swing both arms up overhead, then as you step back swing the arms down and lift the trailing leg out to the side. Alternate directions, flowing the arm swing with the side leg raise in a steady rhythm.
- 1The outer hip and glute lifting the leg to the side
- 2A full overhead arm swing opening the shoulders
- 3Your core bracing as you balance on one leg
Common mistakes
- Leaning hard away to hike the leg up
- Letting the swing yank you off balance
- Raising the leg by twisting the hip open
Muscles worked
The side step overhead swing side leg raise mainly works the glutes, with the obliques, lower abs, quads, hamstrings, calves, front delts, adductors, and hip flexors assisting.
- GlutesPrimary
- ObliquesSupport
- Lower AbsSupport
- QuadsSupport
- HamstringsSupport
- CalvesSupport
- Front DeltsSupport
- AdductorsSupport
- Hip FlexorsSupport
- LatsMinor
- Lower BackMinor
- Upper TrapsMinor
- Upper AbsMinor
- Side DeltsMinor
- Tibialis AnteriorMinor
Kovo programs the side step overhead swing side leg raise for you and tracks it every session.
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Last reviewed June 2026.