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Parallel Bar Hold

Arms

Description

  1. Stand between a set of parallel bars.
  2. Place your hands, knuckles outwards, on the bars.
  3. Push down on your hands to lift yourself off the floor.
  4. Hold yourself in this position with your arms straight for the required time.

Muscles

Front
Back

Primary muscles

  • Front deltoid
  • Chest (pectoralis major)
  • Triceps

Secondary muscles

  • Lats
  • Obliques
  • Abs (rectus abdominis)

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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: Croak6728, wger.de). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).