Scapular pull-ups

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: Upper back.

Secondary: Lats, Traps.

What it is called elsewhere

• Norsk Skulderblad-pull-ups
• Svenska Scapula pull-ups
• Dansk Scapula pull-ups
• Deutsch Skapula Klimmzüge
• Español Dominadas escapulares
• Italiano Trazioni scapolari
• Português Barra fixa escapular
• Русский Лопаточные подтягивания
• Français Tractions scapulaires

Related back exercises

• Deadlift (barbell)
• Romanian deadlift (barbell)
• Barbell row
• Pendlay row
• T-bar row
• Shrugs (barbell)

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