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
- Stand next to a gym rope and place your right hand at chest height.
- Next grab on with your left hand just above head height and pull up until your feet leave the ground.
- Now quickly release your right hand, bring it up overhead, grab on, and repeat the pulling motion.
- Continue pulling up the rope in this fashion until you reach the top.
- 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
