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Technique

  1. Grip the Climbing rope with both hands and pull your body upward.
  2. Reach higher with one hand at a time while maintaining a secure grip.
  3. Try to keep your legs extended parallel to the ground to keep the core engaged

Form tips

  • Take small steps upward
  • Control the descent

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Back
  • Biceps
  • Forearms
  • Chest
  • Serratus anterior
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • Teres major
  • Biceps brachii (short head)
  • Brachialis
  • Brachioradialis
  • Lower trapezius
  • Serratus anterior
  • Pectoralis minor
  • Rhomboid major
  • Middle trapezius

Equipment

Appears in

Joint movements
Elbowflexion
trains stretches

Progressions

e0cl

Tuck front lever row rope climb

Advanced

Regressions

e085

Pullup

Intermediate
e0hv

Neutral grip pullup

Intermediate
e0hw

Chinup

Intermediate
e11t

Rings pullup

Intermediate
e0hj

Half crimp pullup

Intermediate
e0qg

Close grip pullup

Intermediate
e12l

Weighted pullup

Intermediate
e1ai

Weighted chinup

Intermediate
e03j

False grip pullup

Intermediate
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