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For menOn hands and knees

Beginner Mountain Climbers

A floor core, arms, and legs exercise from the men’s track. Start in a high plank with your hands under your shoulders.

Times practiced[1]
695
Men’s popularity[2]
#73of 140
Days per active week[3]
1.0days
Difficulty[4]
2/ 5
Clarity[5]
5/ 5
In a workout[6]
30 sec

Practice history: September 28 – October 25, 2026. What do these numbers mean?

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How to do it

  1. Start in a high plank with your hands under your shoulders.

  2. At a steady pace, bring one knee toward your chest, step it back, and alternate legs without jumping.

What you should feel

Your shoulders holding the plank, your core working with each knee drive, and your heart rate rising.

About these numbers and scores

Practice history covers September 28 – October 25, 2026. Difficulty and clarity come from the app’s exercise content.

  1. Times practiced. One record per exercise per saved workout. We count the exercise when it is marked complete, the workout is marked complete and its logged duration is positive. This movement has 695 counted records in this window. A repeated practice in another workout adds another record. Zero means no qualifying record was found in this window.
  2. Popularity. A count ranking within the men’s track. Only exercises with counted practices are ranked; equal counts share a place. Plan placement and repeat users affect the ranking.
  3. Days per active week. We count different local practice dates for each account in each Monday–Sunday week, then average those counts. Only weeks when that account practiced this exercise are included. Here that is 690 account-days ÷ 658 active account-weeks. We show the average when at least 10 accounts contributed. It describes this history; it is not a recommended weekly schedule.
  4. Difficulty. 2/5 — lower demand on the app’s content scale. Higher means more demanding. This is a fixed exercise score; it is not calculated from usage or a personal assessment.
  5. Clarity. 5/5 — clearest to follow on the app’s content scale. It describes how clearly the instructions and demonstration specify the movement. This is a content score, not a percentage of users who understood it or an average user review.
  6. In a workout. The movement’s default time block in the app. Pauses and settings can change elapsed practice time. It is not a repetition count.

These are saved app records, not verified repetitions or movement quality. Anonymous, unsynced and deleted histories can be missing. Accounts are not a one-to-one count of people, and this snapshot has no comprehensive staff/test-account exclusion.

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Try instead

The exercises the app offers in its place: easier, harder or just different.

For men · On hands and knees

Fast Mountain Climbers

CoreArmsLegs
Difficulty 4/530 sec

Start in a high plank with your hands under your shoulders.

For men · Standing

Woodchop

CoreArmsLegs
Difficulty 2/530 sec

Stand with your feet wider than shoulder-width and join your hands above one shoulder.

Workouts with this exercise

Ready-made sessions that include beginner mountain climbers.

For menBeginnerFull body

Men’s Beginner Plan, Day 6 – Wall & Climbers

The complete short session from day 6 of the men's beginner plan, including warm-up and cool-down.

8 min10 movements

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