Pallof Press

Core · Cable

How to do it

Standing side-on to the pulley at chest height, hands together in front of your sternum. Press your arms straight out and **resist the rotation** the cable wants to create; hold a couple of seconds and return. There is no trunk movement: the exercise is not moving. You feel the abs and the opposite oblique holding. The further from the tower, the harder it is.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

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