Rope Climb
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- Body part
- Back
- Target
- Lats
- Equipment
- Other
- Secondary
- Biceps, Forearms, Middle Back, Shoulders
Instructions
- 1Grab the rope with both hands above your head. Pull down on the rope as you take a small jump.
- 2Wrap the rope around one leg, using your feet to pinch the rope. Reach up as high as possible with your arms, gripping the rope tightly.
- 3Release the rope from your feet as you pull yourself up with your arms, bringing your knees towards your chest.
- 4Resecure your feet on the rope, and then stand up to take another high hold on the rope. Continue until you reach the top of the rope.
- 5To lower yourself, loosen the grip of your feet on the rope as you slide down using a hand over hand motion.
Get this via the API
This exercise — and the full catalog of 873 — as structured JSON.
curl -H "X-API-Key: wk_live_…" \
"https://api.work-out-db.com/v1/exercises/rope-climb"Customize the request
- Translate the response
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/v1/exercises?target=latsFilter the catalog by the target muscle - Narrow by equipment & difficulty
/v1/exercises?equipment=other&difficulty=intermediateFilters are combinable — stack as many as you need - Full-text search
/v1/exercises/search?q=Rope%20ClimbTrigram + full-text ranking, accent-insensitive - Sort & paginate
/v1/exercises?sort=difficulty&order=desc&limit=25sort=name|difficulty · order · limit · offset · cursor
All query parameters
- bodyPart, target, equipment, muscle
- taxonomy slug
- category
- strength · cardio · mobility · stretching · plyometrics
- difficulty
- beginner · intermediate · advanced
- force
- push · pull · static
- mechanic
- compound · isolation
- q
- free-text search (accent-insensitive)
- sort / order
- name | difficulty · asc | desc
- limit / offset / cursor
- pagination (limit ≤ plan cap)
- lang
- en · es · pt · fr
Authentication
Send your key as X-API-Key or Authorization: Bearer.
Response
Always { data, meta, requestId }. Rate-limit & quota counts ride in X-RateLimit-* / X-Quota-* headers.
Plans
Free: 5k req/mo · 30/min · 480p. Pro: 100k/mo · 120/min · 720p + commercial use.
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