Cable Pull Throughs / Pulls
- With your back facing the cable station and the cable resting on the floor between your feet, bend at your knees and take a firm grip of the cable in both hands.
- Keeping your knees bent at a 45 degree angle, pull the cable up so that it is resting between your knees.
- With a firm grip on the cable extend your knees and drive your body upwards using your glutes as the prime mover.
- Hold the top portion while tensing your glutes.
- Slowly lower yourself back down to the starting position to complete 1 rep.
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Fire Hydrants / Abductor / Adductor Knee Raises
Lateral Lunges to Floor Touches
Leg Presses / Machine Squat Press
Cable pull throughs / pulls is a gym exercise that targets glutes & hip flexors and also works hamstrings. Use the illustration and instructions above to learn how to perform this exercise with proper form. Related exercises that work similar muscle groups include Fire hydrants / abductor / adductor knee raises, lateral lunges to floor touches and leg presses / machine squat press. Browse our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises.
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