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Cable Upright Row

Cable Upright Row is a cable pull exercise for the shoulders, and it also works the back. If you cannot do it, Barbell Upright Row or Dumbbell Upright Row are good swaps.

  • Shoulders
  • Pull
  • Cable

Muscles worked

  • Shoulders · main
  • Back

How to do it

  1. Stand facing a low pulley and hold the bar in front of your thighs, palms facing you.
  2. Keep the bar close to your body and your chest up.
  3. Pull it up towards your chest, leading with your elbows, to about shoulder height.
  4. Lower it slowly, keeping tension on the cable.

Watch out: Yanking the bar up with a jerk of your back instead of a smooth pull.

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