Cable cross overs

COURTESY OF GLOBAL FITNESS

Major muscles used

• Pectorals - Inner and outer chest

Performing cable cross overs

• Grasp a handle of a high pulley in each hand. Step far enough away from the machine to raise the weight stacks.
• Your feet should be hip-width apart, your knees slightly bent and you should be leaning slightly forward.
• Your hands should be at shoulder level with your elbows bent at a 45 degree angle, with hands facing downward.
• Pull both handles downward in an arch while flexing (squeezing) your chest muscles until your hands meet at chest level. Hold for a brief second while flexing (squeezing) your chest.
• Slowly return to the starting position in a controlled manner.

Be careful

• Don't jerk the weights downward and don't let the weights pull your arms upward to the starting position. Always use a slow, controlled movement avoiding momentum.

Alternative exercises to cable cross overs

• Cable flyes
• Decline flyes
• Incline flyes
• Flyes

Courtesy of Global-Fitness.com, your Online Personal Trainer

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