Weight Training - Upright Row

 

Teaching points

• Stand upright with your feet shoulder width apart and knees slightly bent
  
• Hold the bar near the centre, with the hands closer than shoulder width and the palms facing you
  
• Pull the bar up towards your chin
  
• Slowly return to the starting position

Variations & progressions

• Perform with a dumbbell in each hand

Muscles worked

• Trapezius
  
• Anterior fibres of Deltoid
  
• Biceps Brachii

Related injuries

• Shoulder Impingement
  
• Dislocated Shoulder

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