How to strengthen your triceps with cable bar press downs

Learn how to do cable triceps bar press down. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life.

Benefits
The simple yet challenging cable triceps press-down isolates and builds the muscles of the triceps.

Muscles Worked
Triceps

Starting Position
Attach a bent tricep bar to the upper connection of a cable machine. Stand in front of the cable machine with your legs in a slight scissor position so that one leg is stepped slightly forward and the other leg is stepped slightly back. Hold the bar up at chest level in both hands with your palms down and your pinkies are on the outside bend of the bar. Your elbows should be bent and held in at your sides.

Exercise
1. From the starting position, press the bar down toward your thighs, keeping your elbows in as you descend.
2. At the bottom of the movement, reverse position and bring the bar back up to starting position. At the top of the movement, your elbows should come up just past a 90-degree angle, no more and no less.