Barbell High Pulls
- Prepare a barbell with a lighter amount of weight than usual. Place the barbell in front of you at your shins.
- Squat down into position, driving your hips back. Keep your chest and head up. Place your hands in an overhand grip on the barbell. Your arms should be straight with a slight bend at the elbow.
- In one fluid motion, explode up and off the ground as you pull the bar high, leading with your elbows. Your feet will leave the ground.
- Land softly and lower yourself back to the starting position.
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Barbell high pulls is a gym work out exercise that targets hamstrings and quadriceps and shoulders and also involves calves and glutes & hip flexors and lower back. Refer to the illustration diagram and instructions above for how to perform this exercise correctly. Dual / two arm dumbbell front shoulder raises, standing hamstring stretch and barbell box squats are related exercise that target the same muscle groups as barbell high pulls. Visit our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises to try in your workouts.
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