Battling Ropes

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Battling Ropes — start position
Start
Battling Ropes — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryShoulders
SecondaryChest, Forearms

How to do it

  1. 01

    For this exercise you will need a heavy rope anchored at its center 15-20 feet away. Standing in front of the rope, take an end in each hand with your arms extended at your side. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Initiate the movement by rapidly raising one arm to shoulder level as quickly as you can.

  3. 03

    As you let that arm drop to the starting position, raise the opposite side.

  4. 04

    Continue alternating your left and right arms, whipping the ropes up and down as fast as you can.

In the app

Battling Ropes appears when you own the kit it needs and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have the kit it needs

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

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