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How to Do Cable Judo Flip

Step-by-step instructions, muscles worked and workouts that use the cable judo flip.

How to do it

1. Connect a rope attachment to a tower, and move the cable to the lowest pulley position. Stand with your side to the cable with a wide stance, and grab the rope with both hands.
2. Twist your body away from the pulley as you bring the rope over your shoulder like you're performing a judo flip.
3. Shift your weight between your feet as you twist and crunch forward, pulling the cable downward.
4. Return to the starting position and repeat until failure.
5. Then, reposition and repeat the same series of movements on the opposite side.

Form tips

• Start light and own the movement before adding weight.
• Control the lowering phase — don't drop into it.
• Keep breathing; exhale on the hardest part.
• Stop if you feel sharp pain (different from muscle burn).

Workouts with this exercise

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Gear for this exercise

Tube bands with handlesGym-like cable exercises at home.See it on Amazon →Door anchor for bandsTurns any door into a cable machine.See it on Amazon →

Exercise photos and instructions: free-exercise-db (public domain). Animation made from the real start and end photos.