Cable Woodchop

How to do it

1. Set a handle on a high pulley and stand side-on, feet wider than your shoulders.
2. Grip the handle with both hands and start with your arms up and across at the high side.
3. Pull down and across your body toward the opposite hip, rotating through your trunk.
4. Let your back foot pivot as you turn.
5. Return under control. Power comes from your trunk rotating, not from your arms pulling.

Muscles it trains

Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.

Other ways to train this

• Twisting Hanging Knee Raises Pull-up barIntermediate
• Cable Crunch Cable machine
• Hanging Leg Raises Pull-up barProfessional
• Machine Crunch Machines
• Russian Twist Dumbbells
• Plank Bodyweight
• Ab Wheel Rollout Ab wheelProfessional
• Crunches Bodyweight
• Lying Leg Raises Bodyweight
• Decline Sit-Ups BodyweightBench
• Bicycle Crunches Bodyweight
• Side Plank Bodyweight

Photos and form cues from free-exercise-db, released into the public domain.