Cable Rows
Compound exercise · horizontal pull
How to do it
- Sit tall at the cable station, set your feet firmly, and reach for the handle in front of you.
- Pull the handle toward your stomach and drive your elbows back.
- Slowly straighten your arms again without shrugging your shoulders.
Muscles involved
- upperBack
- 100
- lats
- 50
- trapezius
- 30
- biceps
- 20
- quadriceps
- 20
- shoulders
- 10
- chest
- 5
- glutes
- 5
- hamstrings
- 5
- serratus
- 5
- obliques
- 5
- abdominals
- 5
- forearms
- 5
At a glance
- Type
- Compound exercise
- Movement pattern
- horizontal pull
- Equipment
- cable machine
- Variations
- both arms, left arm, right arm
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