Rack Pulls

Back · Barbell

How to do it

Bar in the rack pins at knee height or just below. Set up like a deadlift, chest tall, bar against your legs, and lock out by driving your hips forward. Cutting the range lets you load more than a full deadlift, and that is the point: overloading the top of the pull and the upper back. You feel traps, lats and grip. The classic mistake is bouncing the bar off the pins and counting it.

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.

Also works: Glutes, Forearms

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