Back · Barbell · Compound · Intermediate
Bent-Arm Barbell Pullover


PrimarySecondary
- Main muscles
- Lats
- Also working
- Chest, Lats, Shoulders, Triceps
How to do it
- Lie on a flat bench with a barbell using a shoulder grip width.
- Hold the bar straight over your chest with a bend in your arms. This will be your starting position.
- While keeping your arms in the bent arm position, lower the weight slowly in an arc behind your head while breathing in until you feel a stretch on the chest.
- At that point, bring the barbell back to the starting position using the arc through which the weight was lowered and exhale as you perform this movement.
- Hold the weight on the initial position for a second and repeat the motion for the prescribed number of repetitions.
Swaps on other equipment
Each has the lats as its main muscle and is also a pull, on a different piece of equipment.
Other lat exercises
- Band Assisted Pull-Up · Other
- Cable Incline Pushdown · Cable
- Catch and Overhead Throw · Medicine Ball
- Chair Lower Back Stretch · Bodyweight
- Chin-Up · Bodyweight
- Close-Grip Front Lat Pulldown · Cable
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