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Rope Climb

The Rope Climb is our final upper-body pulling progression. Once mastered, the athlete has developed bent-arm strength (muscles like biceps) and can pull their entire body weight up and down a 15' rope twice using only their arms.

  • Type Of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats, Biceps, Forearms
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Equipment: Gym Climbing Rope

Rope Climb

  1. Stand next to a gym rope and place your right hand at chest height.
  2. Next grab on with your left hand just above head height and pull up until your feet leave the ground.
  3. Now quickly release your right hand, bring it up overhead, grab on, and repeat the pulling motion.
  4. Continue pulling up the rope in this fashion until you reach the top.
  5. Then, reverse the motion to lower with control back to the floor.
  • Exercise: Rope Pull-Up from Shoulder
  • Type of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats, Biceps, Forearms
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Equipment: Gym Climbing Rope
  • Exercise: Rope Pull-Up
  • Type of Exercise: Strength
  • Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats, Biceps, Forearms
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Equipment: Gym Climbing Rope
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