Straight-Arm Band Pulldown
How to do it
- Anchor a band overhead and step back until your arms are straight and the band is tight.
- Hinge forward slightly at the hips, elbows locked straight.
- Sweep your arms down in an arc to your thighs.
- Squeeze your lats, then let your arms rise back overhead under control.
- Straight arms throughout - this is a lat movement, not a triceps one.
Muscles it trains
Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.
- Lats 65%
- Triceps 25%
- Abs 20%
- Rear delts 15%
Other ways to train this
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Lat Pulldown
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Pull-Ups
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Close-Grip Pulldown
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V-Bar Pulldown
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Chin-Ups
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Assisted Pull-Ups
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Straight-Arm Pulldown
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ISO-Lateral High Row
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Band Lat Pulldown
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Negative Pull-Ups
Photos and form cues from free-exercise-db, released into the public domain.
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