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Single-arm cable row
Back · Cable
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 4
Reps8 to 12
RIR1 to 2
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.
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.
Enter a set to see the estimate.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Enarms kabelroing
- Swedish Enarmig kabelrodd
- Danish Enarms kabelroning
- German Einarmiges Rudern am Kabelzug
- Spanish Remo en polea a una mano
- Italian Pulley a un braccio
- Portuguese Remada unilateral (polia)
- Russian Тяга блока одной рукой
- French Tirage horizontal à un bras
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