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Suspension Trainer Face Pull

A bodyweight pull on suspension straps that brings the hands toward the face with the elbows out and back.

This page is a working draft. A coach has not reviewed it, so read it as a starting point, not as checked instruction.

Pattern: Horizontal pull
Modality: Strength
Difficulty: Beginner
Mechanic: Unknown
Force: Unknown
Laterality: Bilateral
Impact: Low
Trains where: Gym, Home
At home: Yes

How to do it

Set up

Hold the handles with the palms facing down.
Walk the feet forward and lean back with straight arms at shoulder height until the body forms one straight line.

Do the rep

Pull the handles toward the forehead while the elbows move out and back.
Lower to straight arms under control with the body in one line.

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 in a straight-arm lean, brings the hands to face height with the elbows back, and ends after a controlled return to straight arms.

Breathing

Exhale as the hands reach the face; inhale as you lower.

Cues

Pull toward the face.
Lead with the elbows.
Walk the feet forward for a steeper angle when the reps get easy.

Common mistakes

Pulling toward the chest
What you seeThe hands finish below shoulder height.
FixAim the hands at the forehead and keep the elbows high.
Pulling to face height keeps the work on the rear shoulders and upper back.
Hips sag
What you seeThe hips drop below the line from the shoulders to the heels.
FixSqueeze the glutes and use a more upright body angle.
A straight body keeps the work in the upper body instead of the hips.

Stop the set if

Stop if you feel sharp pain.
Stop if the anchor moves or a strap slips.
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
Deep core / trunk stabilizers · moderate confidence

Equipment

Suspension trainer

Hang the trainer from a fixed overhead anchor, such as a beam or a pull-up bar, and make sure that it holds your body weight.

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

Draft. A editorial reviewer has not signed this off yet.

Draft text is original copy for Wave 2 batch 1, written from the blueprint CSV row and the Wave 2 rules page of 2026-10-12. No human review is complete.
Technique, cues, rep standard, breathing, stop cues, and error corrections need independent sources and the assigned review tier (blueprint two-source rule).
Programming roles, skill tier, failure cost, timed use, goal fit, and equipment follow the rules page; the switch-on PR must confirm them.
Anatomy uses the CSV planning hints; the assigned review tier must confirm it.
Legacy relations and engine edges stay empty until the progression ladder lane and S2-CAT-005.
Timed use and goal fit copy ex_face_pull, the closest Wave 1 record.
The CSV lists horizontal-pull. The record uses the Wave 1 face pull roles (secondary_pull, isolation_target), not primary_horizontal_pull.
The CSV muscle list puts the lats first; the record follows the Wave 1 face pull (rear deltoids, upper back).
Suspension work is reps only. A cue asks for a steeper body angle when the reps get easy.
The anchor text names a beam or a pull-up bar. The rules page rules out door anchors for bands only; a door anchor for a suspension trainer needs a coach ruling.

All instruction and editorial text in this record is original draft copy written for Allena. Planning metadata comes from the internal Wave-2 blueprint CSV.

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