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Technique

  1. Stand perpendicular to a cable machine with feet shoulder-width apart and with the machine pulley set all the way up.
  2. Grab the handle with the closest hand and place yourself sufficiently far for the cable to be under tension when your arm is fully extended and relaxed.
  3. While keeping your arm straight, push the handle down to bring your hand by your hips, then continue the circular motion towards the far side and bring your hand up overhead, then back towards to the starting position.
  4. Also perform the movement in the other direction. Either direction counts as one repetition.

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Form tips

  • Don’t arch or bend your back in any direction.
Logging: Weight used on one side. Work each side for the time indicated.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Chest
  • Back
  • Shoulders
  • Rotator cuff

Secondary

  • Biceps
  • Triceps
  • Pectoralis major (sternal head)
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • Teres major
  • Middle deltoid
  • Supraspinatus

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Equipment

Cable machine
Cable machine

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