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Sets, reps and RIR

Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.

RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.

Muscles worked

Primary: Obliques.

Secondary: Abs, Hip flexors, Forearms.

What it is called elsewhere

• Norsk Vindusviskere (hengende)
• Svenska Vindrutetorkare (hängande)
• Dansk Vinduesviskere (hængende)
• Deutsch Scheibenwischer hängend
• Español Limpiaparabrisas colgado
• Italiano Tergicristalli alla sbarra
• Português Limpador de para-brisa na barra
• Русский Дворники в висе
• Français Essuie-glaces suspendu

Related core exercises

• Cable crunch
• Pallof press
• Cable woodchopper
• Crunch (machine)
• Rotary torso (machine)
• Dumbbell side bend

athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.