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How to Do Standing Rope Crunch

Step-by-step instructions, muscles worked and workouts that use the standing rope crunch.

How to do it

1. Attach a rope to a high pulley and select an appropriate weight.
2. Stand with your back to the cable tower. Take the rope with both hands over your shoulders, holding it to your upper chest. This will be your starting position.
3. Perform the movement by flexing the spine, crunching the weight down as far as you can.
4. Hold the peak contraction for a moment before returning to the starting position.

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).

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