Rack Pull with Bands
Trains the Spinal Erectors.
- Equipment
- A barbell, a rack and a resistance band
- Mechanic
- Compound
- Force
- Pull
- Level
- Intermediate


How to do it
- Set the safety pins in a rack at the height you want to pull from, usually knee level or just below.
- Loop a band over each end of the barbell and anchor both to the rack base.
- Stand with the bar over the middle of your feet and take an overhand or mixed grip.
- Set your back flat and your chest up, then take the weight without the bar moving.
- Stand up against the bands, taking on more tension with every inch.
- Lower under control back onto the pins and let it settle before the next repetition.
Common mistakes
- Bouncing off the pins. The dead stop is the point of a rack pull; a rebound reintroduces exactly what the pins removed.
- Setting the pins by what is convenient. The height decides which part of the pull is trained, and above-knee and below-knee are different exercises.
- Loading it against a full deadlift. A shortened range plus band tension at the top is a combination with no equivalent number.
- Letting the bands pull the bar down onto the pins. The descent is controlled; a band-driven drop onto steel pins is loud and hard on the bar.