Muscle Groups
- Chest
Purposes
- Chest strength
Overview
The cable crossover is a great isolation exercise for the chest and anterior shoulder muscles. Cable crossovers are often paired with bench presses to achieve additional definition and growth (hypertrophy) in the chest muscles. You may adjust the height of the pulleys to change the angle of the resistance.
Description
- Bend the legs slightly for good balance, and lean slightly forward
- Standing between the cable crossover columns, hold the handle of each column in each hand, arms stretched out
- Keeping the chest forward and back straight, pull the handles down toward each other
- Return to the top
- Repeat
Mistakes
- Hunching the shoulders forward
- Rounding the back
- Shrugging the shoulders
- Using momentum
