Side Wrist Pull
How to do the Side Wrist Pull with correct form, the muscles it works, and where it fits a training plan you actually stick to.
Shoulders
Forearms, Lats
Bodyweight
How to do the Side Wrist Pull
- 1
This stretch works best standing. Cross your left arm over the midline of your body and hold the left wrist in your right hand down at the level of your hips. Start the stretch with a bent left arm.
- 2
Slowly straighten, pull, and lift it up to shoulder height, as pictured. Feel this stretch originate in your back, not your shoulders, and don't pull too hard on the shoulders joint. Switch sides.
Log it, see it on your body.
Every Side Wrist Pull set you log feeds Ascend's anatomy heatmap — so your shoulders volume is visible at a glance — and counts toward your bodyweight-strength tier.
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