Exercise guide

Battling Ropes

CategoryStrength EquipmentOther ForcePush MechanicCompound LevelBeginner

How to do the Battling Ropes: step-by-step instructions, muscles worked (Shoulders), and equipment. Log it in Vantora.

How to perform the Battling Ropes exercise

How to do the Battling Ropes

  1. For this exercise you will need a heavy rope anchored at its center 15-20 feet away. Standing in front of the rope, take an end in each hand with your arms extended at your side. This will be your starting position.
  2. Initiate the movement by rapidly raising one arm to shoulder level as quickly as you can.
  3. As you let that arm drop to the starting position, raise the opposite side.
  4. Continue alternating your left and right arms, whipping the ropes up and down as fast as you can.

Muscles worked

shoulders chest forearms

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