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Face Pull

A cable or band pull toward the face with the elbows moving out and back.

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Pattern: Horizontal pull
Modality: Strength
Difficulty: Beginner
Mechanic: Unknown
Force: Unknown
Laterality: Bilateral
Impact: Low
Trains where: Gym
At home: No

How to do it

Set up

Set the cable or band near face height and hold it with both hands.
Step back until there is tension and stand with the arms extended.

Do the rep

Pull toward your face while the elbows move out and back.
Return to straight arms under control without losing your stance.

What counts as a rep

A rep counts when the hands reach face height with the elbows back and the arms return to straight.

One rep starts with straight arms, brings the hands to face height with elbows back, and ends after a controlled return to straight arms.

Breathing

Exhale as the hands reach the face; inhale as the arms extend.

Cues

Pull toward the face.
Lead with the elbows.
Keep the ribs down.

Common mistakes

Pulling toward the chest
What you seeThe hands finish below shoulder height.
FixSet the anchor near face height and pull toward eye level.
Pulling to face height preserves the intended upper-back and shoulder path.
Leaning backward
What you seeThe torso moves away from the anchor during the pull.
FixUse less resistance and keep the body still.
A fixed torso keeps resistance in the pull instead of body movement.

Stop the set if

Stop if you feel sharp pain.
Stop if the anchor shifts or the resistance pulls you off balance.
End the set when you cannot meet the stated range under control.

General educational content, not individual coaching or medical advice.

Muscles worked

Prime movers

Rear deltoids · moderate confidence
Upper back · moderate confidence

Assisting

Rotator cuff · moderate confidence
Trapezius · moderate confidence

Equipment

Cable or Resistance band

Set the cable or band near face height and use a secure two-hand grip.

In the app

You log this by hand. The camera coach does not watch this movement yet.

Tracking: Camera candidate

How this page was checked

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Technique, cues, rep standards, breathing, stop cues, and error corrections are original draft text. Independent technique sources and coach review remain required.
Anatomy, classification, and equipment use unapproved blueprint planning hints. The assigned review tier must confirm them.
Allowed metrics, side counting, and environment values are draft interpretations of the planning metadata.
This pass treats load-and-reps as the legal modes supported by the CSV logging model; reviewer approval remains required.
The rewritten summary, rep standard, breathing, stop cues, and common errors are editorial judgements pending the assigned review tier.
Legacy relations are movement-pattern and equipment judgements; engine edges remain empty pending S2-CAT-005 approval.
Pass 2 rewrites the finish standard as a counting-only criterion and replaces the web title, summary, and meta description with exercise-specific copy; these editorial choices require review.

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