Back
Standing towel pull
Stand tall with feet hip-width apart, holding a towel with both hands, hands slightly wider than shoulder-width. Keep a slight bend in your elbows and pull the towel taut, creating tension as if trying to rip it apart.
- Equipment
- Equipment
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Focus Area
- Back
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- Latissimus Dorsi
- Rhomboids
- Posterior Deltoid
Secondary muscles
- Biceps Brachii
- Trapezius (middle and lower)
- Rotator Cuff
Target muscles
- back
- shoulder
- arms
How to perform
- 1
Stand tall with feet hip-width apart, holding a towel with both hands, hands slightly wider than shoulder-width.
- 2
Keep a slight bend in your elbows and pull the towel taut, creating tension as if trying to rip it apart.
- 3
Engage your back muscles, squeezing your shoulder blades together and down.
- 4
Maintain constant tension on the towel throughout the hold.
- 5
Hold for the prescribed duration, breathing steadily.
- 6
Release tension slowly and relax.
Safety & form
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