Front Cable Raise

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Front Cable Raise — start position
Start
Front Cable Raise — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryShoulders

How to do it

  1. 01

    Select the weight on a low pulley machine and grasp the single hand cable attachment that is attached to the low pulley with your left hand.

  2. 02

    Face away from the pulley and put your arm straight down with the hand cable attachment in front of your thighs at arms' length with the palms of the hand facing your thighs. This will be your starting position.

  3. 03

    While maintaining the torso stationary (no swinging), lift the left arm to the front with a slight bend on the elbow and the palms of the hand always faces down. Continue to go up until you arm is slightly above parallel to the floor. Exhale as you execute this portion of the movement and pause for a second at the top.

  4. 04

    Now as you inhale lower the arm back down slowly to the starting position.

  5. 05

    Once all of the recommended amount of repetitions have been performed for this arm, switch arms and perform the exercise with the right one.

In the app

Front Cable Raise appears when you own a cable stack 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 a cable stack

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

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