Starting Position
- On knees with shoulders perpendicular to cable machine, butt off heels, and cable handle in the outside hand
Procedure
- Reach across your body with the outside hand, turning shoulders to the machine
- Lift and rotate hips up and away from machine as the outside shoulder rotates back and the outside hand pulls the handle to your outside hip (much like a dumbbell row)
Coaching Keys
- This movement should look and feel like you’re trying to start a lawnmower that doesn’t want to crank
- Don’t forget to turn shoulders towards and away from the machine with each repetition
- Hips lift as outside hand pulls across your body
You Should Feel It
- Working the torso rotators, lats, arms and back of the shoulders
© Core Performance
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