Legs · Bodyweight
Single Leg Support Balance
How to do the single leg support balance, 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
- Isometric
- Mechanic
- Isolation
How to do it
Stand on one leg with a soft bend in your knee and lift the other foot off the floor. Hold a tall, steady position and balance, using small adjustments in your foot and ankle to stay upright. Hold, then switch legs.
- 1Feel your foot and ankle make small corrections to stay balanced
- 2Keep your standing glute and core engaged for stability
- 3Stand tall with your eyes fixed on one point
Common mistakes
- Do not let your standing knee cave inward
- Avoid gripping with your toes or rolling onto the edge of your foot
- Do not hold your breath; stay relaxed and tall
Muscles worked
The single leg support balance mainly works the glutes, with the quads, calves, lower abs, obliques, hamstrings, and tibialis anterior assisting.
- GlutesPrimary
- QuadsSupport
- CalvesSupport
- Lower AbsSupport
- ObliquesSupport
- HamstringsSupport
- Tibialis AnteriorSupport
- Lower BackMinor
- Upper AbsMinor
- External RotatorsMinor
- AdductorsMinor
- Hip FlexorsMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.