Shoulders·Cable·Isolation

Front Cable Raise

Shoulders · Cable

Beginner

Body Part

Shoulders

Equipment

Cable

Level

Beginner

Type

Isolation

Force

Push

The Front Cable Raise is a beginner cable exercise that primarily targets the Shoulders.

Muscles Worked

Shoulders primary

How to Do the Front Cable Raise

  1. 1Select the weight on a low pulley machine and grasp the single hand cable attachment that is attached to the low pulley with your left hand.
  2. 2Face away from the pulley and put your arm straight down with the hand cable attachment in front of your thighs at arms' length with the palms of the hand facing your thighs. This will be your starting position.
  3. 3While maintaining the torso stationary (no swinging), lift the left arm to the front with a slight bend on the elbow and the palms of the hand always faces down. Continue to go up until you arm is slightly above parallel to the floor. Exhale as you execute this portion of the movement and pause for a second at the top.
  4. 4Now as you inhale lower the arm back down slowly to the starting position.
  5. 5Once all of the recommended amount of repetitions have been performed for this arm, switch arms and perform the exercise with the right one.

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Exercise data from the open-source Free Exercise DB.