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Strength exercises Β· Upper body
Rope pull-up
Difficulty Pull-ups and pulldowns
How to perform it
Pull-up on a hanging rope instead of a bar. Targets the lats and biceps like a pull-up, but the thick, unstable grip sharply raises the demands on the forearms and grip.
Equipment
- Climbing ropeBodyweight
Muscles worked
Front
Back
Muscles and artwork credits
- Biceps
- Brachialis (not on the surface map)
- Forearm flexors
- Lats
- Mid and lower traps
- Rectus abdominis
- Rhomboids (not on the surface map)
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Pull-ups and pulldowns
Exercise family Β· pattern: Pull-ups and pulldowns
1 family Β· 7 variationsDifficulty
- Lat pulldown
- Banded chin-up
- Banded pull-up
- Chin-up
- Neutral grip pull-up
- Pull-up
- Rope pull-upCurrently viewing
Difficulty describes how demanding the execution is. It is not a recommended training order.