The Bear Crawl is a bodyweight conditioning movement in which the athlete crawls on all fours while keeping hips above shoulders. The Bear Crawl builds strength in the shoulders, wrists, core, and hip flexors. The Bear Crawl is suitable for all fitness levels, which makes it an ideal movement to incorporate into a workout.

The bear crawl exercise is a quadruped (hands and knees) movement pattern where the arms and legs move in a coordinated fashion, similar to walking. In a quadruped stance, your right arm crawls forward and your left foot steps forward in synchronicity. Then the opposite side does the same.

The bear crawl exercise is an overall body and cardiovascular workout that works the glutes, abs, chest, shoulders, hip flexors, calves, chest, forearms, groin, middle back, triceps, hamstrings, middle back, oblique, and lats. To begin, go down on all fours with your hands under your shoulders and your knees beneath your keeps.