How do you get the cable crossover to hit the lower chest?
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How do you get the cable crossover to hit the lower chest?
You set the pulleys at the bottom and starting with arms wide and extended, bring them up to about sternum-height and hands nearly together to squeeze the pecs. Control the negative.
It is easy to turn this into a standing cable curl if you use sloppy form and not feel this in the chest at all. I found that the best way is to keep a very slight bend in the arms and concentrate to not increase that bend at all on the way up. You should feel it mostly in the front delts as you begin to come forward and your chest take over as you pass the halfway mark. Contract hard at the top as you should be doing with every exercise.
[QUOTE=Bostongeorge617;524185203]You set the pulleys at the bottom and starting with arms wide and extended, bring them up to about sternum-height and hands nearly together to squeeze the pecs. Control the negative.
It is easy to turn this into a standing cable curl if you use sloppy form and not feel this in the chest at all. I found that the best way is to keep a very slight bend in the arms and concentrate to not increase that bend at all on the way up. You should feel it mostly in the front delts as you begin to come forward and your chest take over as you pass the halfway mark. Contract hard at the top as you should be doing with every exercise.[/QUOTE]
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For *lower* chest?
This pic is kind of ghey but the first one I came across with start and finish pics.
[img]http://www.fitness-guru.com/CableCrossover-color.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=skarotum;524186413]^^^
For *lower* chest?
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Yes, for lower chest. The picture you have used above demonstrates a cable fly to be certain, but the emphasis is in the center. That is like doing flat bench for lower chest development, rather than declines.
What I was describing, although in the book I own it's Ronnie Coleman demonstrating it, heh:
[img]http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/Images/exercises/chest-exercise/cable-crossovers-low-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/Images/exercises/chest-exercise/cable-crossover-low-2.jpg[/img]