Reverse Grip Tricep Pushdown

Reverse Grip Tricep Pushdown Instructions

• Set the cable attachment above your head.
• Fix 2 free handles to the attachment point.
•  The "free" handles allow your wrist to move and elicit greater tricep activation.
• Grip the handles with your palms facing upward. You want to be slightly hinged at the hips. 
• Maintain proper posture with your chest up and and shoulders back. 
• Elbows are into your sides wit your hands away from your body. 
• Initiate the mind-muscle connection of creating and maintaining tension in the tricep throughout the exercise.
• Push the rope down allowing your wrist to rotate.
• The path of the rope is somewhat behind you.
• Sqeeze the tricep at the bottom before return to the starting position. 
• Maintain tension on the tricep from start to finish.

*Tips*

• Aim for volume with this exercise, using heavier weight with this movement will cause unwarranted stress on the elbow.
• This is an assistance exercise for a reason.
• Do not let your elbows flare.
• This will take tension off of the tricep and put it on the chest and shoulders.
• Do not let the rope come too close your body. 
• On the eccentric, don't let your elbows come up to high. This will activate your lats and take away from the tricep.