Tag Archives: Cable

Muscle Group: Triceps Cable incline tricep pushdowns work your triceps in two ways. The bench eliminates cheating and greater isolates your arms. The triceps are worked from a 45-degree angle, rather than a straight up and down movement. Place an incline bench so your head is under the cable pulley. Take a seat, reach back and grab the bar. Bring […]

Muscle Group: Biceps You are going to need a preacher bench to perform this movement. Place a bench in front of a low pulley cable machine. Attach a straight bar or EZ bar to the low pulley. Sit down and place your arms on the bench. During this exercise, we are going to perform a slow controlled movement focusing on the squeeze. Curl the […]

Muscle Group: Biceps Seated Cable Concentration Curls are another bicep peak exercise. Cables are amazing for putting constant tension on the muscle. Bring a bench right next to a low cable pulley. Attach a short bar, take a seat and plant your legs on the ground. Now place your elbows on your inner thighs and allow the bar to hang […]

Muscle Group: Biceps High Pulley Lying Cable Curls develop and shape the biceps, particularly the height of the biceps peak. Cables will provide us constant resistance throughout this exercise. High Pulley Lying Cable Curls provide more isolation than Standing Cable Curls and hit your biceps from a different angle. Go over to a high pulley and attach a straight or […]

Muscle Group: Biceps Lying Cable Curls are great for the development of your biceps shape and size, particularly the bicep peak. Cables allow for constant resistance – especially for squeezing at the peak of this exercise. Go over to the seated cable row machine or low pulley and attach a straight or EZ short bar to the cable extension. Grab […]

Muscle Group: Back Here we work each side of the back independently from the other. One-armed Seated Cable Rows can be done sitting on the floor or on a bench. Sit on the floor in front of a low pulley and place your feet on a platform that will enable you to support the weight stack. You must maintain this position […]

Muscle Group: Back Bent Over Lat Pulldowns will work your lats with greater isolation then they are used to. This is because you eliminate the use of your biceps during the bent over straight arm lat pulldown movement. This exercise is performed on a high pulley. Stand back far enough from the high pulley to raise the weight stack. Grab […]

Muscle Group: Back This variation of the pullover will be working the lats and rib cage. Attach a bar to the cable machine. Now facing the bar, reach up and grab it with a medium overhand grip. Your arms should have a slight bend. With your arms up gripping the bar, take a step back until you feel a complete […]

Muscle Group: Back Here we work each side of the lats independently, one from the other using cables. This exercise can be performed seated, kneeling or standing. Take a seat on a lat pulldown machine and attach a handle so that you can use one arm. Place your non-working hand on its respective thigh. Now with one arm reach up […]

Muscle Group: Back Cable Pullovers are one of the best all around and technically sound exercises for isolating your lats. Start the exercise by laying back on a decline bench that is positioned so that your head is right next to the low cable pulley. You should attach a rope or v bar to the machine. Using the rope, allow your […]