Cable Crossover

Chest · Cable

How to do it

Pulleys at chest height and a step forward so the cables are already pulling before you start. Torso leaning in a touch, elbows softly bent. Bring your hands together in an arc until they **cross** in front of you and hold half a second squeezing: the chest finishes its job at the midline, and no dumbbell gives you that part. Return very slowly. You feel the chest closing side to side. The classic mistake is stopping a hand's width apart and missing the interesting half.

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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