Straight-Arm Pulldown
How to do it
- Set a straight bar on the high pulley and stand back about a step.
- Grip overhand, arms straight, hinge forward slightly.
- Keeping your elbows locked, sweep the bar down to your thighs.
- Squeeze your lats, then let it rise back up under control.
- Because the elbow never bends, this is the one lat movement your biceps cannot take over.
Muscles it trains
Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.
- Lats 90%
- Triceps 20%
- Abs 15%
- 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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ISO-Lateral High Row
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Band Lat Pulldown
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Straight-Arm Band 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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