Standing Cable Wood Chop

Core · Cable

How to do it

High pulley (or low, reversing the motion), standing side-on. Take the handle diagonally from shoulder to opposite hip, rotating the trunk and letting the back foot pivot. The arms stay nearly straight: the turn comes from the trunk. You feel the obliques. The classic mistake is doing it with the arms only, trunk rigid.

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: Shoulders

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