Introducing The Back Lever

August 2009 CrossFit Journal () CrossFit -- () “This is the about the simplest, most bastardized way I can teach you this movement,“ Jeff Tucker says of his scaled version of the back lever. On a visit to CrossFit Santa Cruz Central, Jeff gives athletes a taste of the back lever when they hold on to the gymnastics rings in the tuck position. They don’t have a full load because they are not fully extended.