Stand facing the cable pulley, with your feet shoulder-width apart. Grasp the bar with hands slightly wider than shoulder width and knees slightly bent. Keep your elbows straight and focus on pulling the bar to your hips. Your trunk should stay tall and your head up. Hold for 1–2 seconds, keeping your shoulder blades back and down.

The standing lat pull-down is a variation of the lat pull-down performed standing next to a cable stack rather than sitting on a bench or machine. It has all of the same benefits of a lat pull-down performed on a bench or machine, in addition to providing further activation to the core and lower body.