Cable Lying Triceps Extension

Triceps · Cable

How to do it

Lie on a flat bench with your head towards a low pulley fitted with a straight bar. Take a close overhand grip and bring the bar to straight arms over your chest. Lower by bending only the elbow, taking the bar towards your forehead or behind your head, and extend. With the cable pulling from below and behind, **there is tension at lockout too**, which is where a barbell skull crusher gets easy. The classic mistake is the elbows travelling back: they stay put.

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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