Pull Through - Sled

Recommendations: 1-4 Sets, 0.0057 Dist

Intermediate Glutes Lower Back Hamstrings Calves Quads Strength Sled Pull Compound Gym

Purpose: This exercise is a controlled, balanced glute exercise for building tone and shape.

Benefits: This is a good exercise for core glute muscle development.

Load the apparatus. Attach a long chain, rope or strap to the apparatus. Straddling the chain or rope, facing away from the apparatus, moving forward until there is a lot of tension. Your feet should be about shoulder-width apart. Bend at the hips to grip the chain. Keep your knees slightly bent. This is the starting position. With your arms straight, drive through with your hips, moving the sled forward. Use the power of your hips and glutes, not your shoulders. Exhale during this movement. Continue pulling under the required distance is completed.


The glutes consist of the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and gluteus minimus. They create hip joint motion to lift the thigh forward, lift the thigh to the side, rotate the leg inward, and rotate the thigh outward.

Step 1

Facing away from the sled, bend over and grasp the chain between your legs.

pull-through-sled-step-0

Load the apparatus. Attach a long chain, rope or strap to the apparatus. Straddling the chain or rope, facing away from the apparatus, moving forward until there is a lot of tension. Your feet should be about shoulder-width apart. Bend at the hips to grip the chain. Keep your knees slightly bent. This is the starting position.

Step 2

Pull the sled forward.

pull-through-sled-step-1

With your arms straight, drive through with your hips, moving the sled forward. Use the power of your hips and glutes, not your shoulders. Exhale during this movement.