London Bridges

LatsOtherIntermediateCompound
London Bridges — start position
Start
London Bridges — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryLats
SecondaryBiceps, Forearms, Mid back

How to do it

  1. 01

    Attach a climbing rope to a high beam or cross member. Below it, ensure that the smith machine bar is locked in place with the safeties and cannot move. Alternatively, a secure box could also be utilized.

  2. 02

    Stand on the bar, using the rope to balance yourself. This will be your starting position.

  3. 03

    Keeping your body straight, lean back and lower your body by slowly going hand over hand with the rope. Continue until you are perpendicular to the ground.

  4. 04

    Keeping your body straight, reverse the motion, going hand over hand back to the starting position.

In the app

London Bridges 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.

With bodyweight
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