Ski Erg

Muscles worked: .

How to do it

Stand tall and take the handles above your head.
Hinge at the hips and pull the handles down past your waist.
Drive the pull from your lats and core, not just the arms.
Stand back up and reach overhead to reset each stroke.
Keep the strokes long rather than short and choppy. Log the minutes.

Coaching cues

The two cues IronPack shows on this exercise's card mid-workout:

Long pulls from the lats and core

Logging it

Logged as minutes with a built-in stopwatch. Cardio pays cadence and streak progress, not records.

Track the ski erg properly

IronPack logs every set, tracks your records at every rep count, shows these form photos mid-workout, and turns the training into a card game you play with your mates.

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Steps, cues, muscle weighting and logging guidance are IronPack's own app data. Last generated 2026-08-16.