Single-arm cable row

Sets, reps and RIR

Machines and cables hold the path for you, so you can work closer to failure than with free weights.

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: Lats, Upper back.

Secondary: Biceps, Rear delts, Rotator cuff.

Estimate your one-rep max

Epley's formula, from a set you have actually done. It is an estimate, and it drifts above eight reps, so keep the input between one and twelve.

What it is called elsewhere

• Norsk Enarms kabelroing
• Svenska Enarmig kabelrodd
• Dansk Enarms kabelroning
• Deutsch Einarmiges Rudern am Kabelzug
• Español Remo en polea a una mano
• Italiano Pulley a un braccio
• Português Remada unilateral (polia)
• Русский Тяга блока одной рукой
• Français Tirage horizontal à un bras

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.