Cable Iron Cross

Chest · Cable

How to do it

Pulleys above head height and a step forward. Elbows slightly bent and fixed, and the motion goes from high to low until your hands meet around navel height. Squeeze for a beat at the bottom. You feel it in the lower chest, the part that draws the bottom edge. Careful not to end up pressing with the triceps: if the elbows straighten and bend, it is no longer a fly.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

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