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Technique

  1. Hang on the rings keeping your feet on the ground and your body horizontal, just lifted off the ground
  2. Pull a ring towards your armpit while pushing your other arm completely straight to the side.
  3. Return to starting position in a controlled manner and repeat on the other side

Form tips

  • Avoid rotating your body to the pulling side.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Rotator cuff
  • Back
  • Shoulders
  • Triceps
  • Biceps
  • Forearms
  • Teres minor
  • Teres major
  • Posterior deltoid
  • Middle trapezius
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • Rhomboid major
  • Triceps brachii (long head)
  • Biceps brachii (short head)
  • Brachialis
  • Brachioradialis
  • Lower trapezius
  • Infraspinatus

Equipment

Appears in

Progressions

e08h

Rings arm-in archer row

Advanced

Regressions

e02x

Decline row

Intermediate
e0do

Wide row

Intermediate
e016

Incline one-arm row

Intermediate
e03k

False grip row

Intermediate
e0q9

Incline straddle one-arm row

Intermediate
e0bl

Straddle one-arm row

Advanced
e14e

Rings horizontal row

Novice
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