Bear Crawl

  • Exercise name: Bear Crawl

  • Exercise description:

    • Start on your hands and feet, with your knees off the ground.

    • Crawl forward. Move the opposite hand and foot together, and keep your knees off the ground.

    • A rep is complete when both hands and both feet are past the finish line.

  • Technique that must be performed to count: Hands and feet stay on the ground. Knees stay off the ground. Both hands and both feet must finish past the line.

  • How to fail the technique: If a knee touches the ground, the rep does not count. If any hand or foot is still short of the finish line, the rep does not count.

  • # of repetitions before shooting: 15 yard bear crawl.

  • Casual division modifier: 10 yard bear crawl.

  • Exercise equipment needed: None. Marked start and finish lines.

  • Note: This exercise also works as a replacement for the 25-yard sprint on Range 9 or Range 10.

Bear Crawl demonstration