How good is the rope pushdown?

How good is the rope pushdown, IST?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Overhead cable tricep extension is better

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Overhead cable tricep extension
      this looks way better. thanks

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Warms up my elbows for heavy skull crushers. You can cheat a little with picrel. Super good exercise

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      same. skullcrashers just better

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good. The bad thing is that it tops out at 100 lbs at my Gold’s

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      When I started lifting with my dad I remember he would hang a plate off a pin in the weight stack.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pointless compared to normal pushdowns, and those ropes are a vector of disease.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Is this the superior pushdown attachment?

      https://i.imgur.com/OZe5Hbb.png

      I do this with the ropes

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are these and tricep dips enough for full tricep development? When I train arms I always warm up with these two but when I am pumped and go to do skullcrushers/ overhead triceps extension my elbow feels weird. No pain from doing dips or pushdowns. Aside from benching this is all I do. My triceps are actually my best feature so I want to keep progressing, should I add close grip bench or floor press or will it not make much of a difference?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Stick to what's comfortable. If it gives you pain then don't do it or experiment with your form to find ways that make it work. I get pain from overhead tricep work and skullcrushers(unless I push my arms farther back instead of keeping them 90 degrees).

      As far as adding close grip bench. It depends on the volume you're getting from your other tricep work. Dips are king for triceps, but maybe alternating close grip bench would help you. Just try and experiment and see what works.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      source

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        dicken booty

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >dicken booty
          ???

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Das dicken booty

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous
          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Fur einen dicken booty

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >pushdown
    Looks like a pull to me.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You have to imagine you're pushing yourself up. That's why its called a pushdown

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    For me it's decline bench ez bar pullovers to failure immediately followed by flat bench ez bar LTE's to failure immediate followed by a dropset of the same thing but now it's strict skullcrushers to failure. By immediately I mean like 15 seconds.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I prefer single arm triceps pushdowns while facing away from the machine.
    Overhead cable or barbell triceps extensions are also good.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      this vs. overhead extension? which is better

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Whichever feels better. Personally enjoy the overhead variation but I also do single arm pulldowns as well so

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Some people claim the overhead hits the long head for fuller hypertrophy. I feel like I can get better extension on the overhead

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm lightly of the opinion that rope pushdowns are straight up slightly less stimulative than pushdowns with a bar of some kind. I still use rope because of how good it feels on my wrists but I make sure to spread the rope out but then hold it together on the last few reps because I think going slightly past failure is appropriate here.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like the v bar ones.
    Going hard on these is fun

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Becomes an ab exercise if you're actually strong due to you bracing to keep the stack from throwing you up. There's a billion other tricep shit you can do that doesn't have this problem.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >not wearing a dip belt and anchoring yourself self with plates like Dorian Yates

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >not full

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I do it almost every tricep work out that I do, it always give me a good pump, any exercise that give me a decent pump is a good exercise in my book

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good enough, easy to progress

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This isn't smooth at all, and you aren't controlling the eccentric. Lower the weight. Follow a 2/1/2 tempo.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's quite a bit of weight but God your arms are small, what's going on?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        My guess is low reps+low volume.
        Or he is just strong at pushdowns.

        I only do 60-70lbs for 4x20 and have 16in arms.
        Or I am totally wrong and he is rocking 18in arms and is monstrous.

        I like to let the weight stretch my tricep and have my wrist go high up.

        I like JM Presses and single arm kickbacks instead

        I like the jm press.

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I do them, but I do skullcrushers and verhead tricep extensions first. These "what is the 1 exercise that I can do" threads are cancer.

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like JM Presses and single arm kickbacks instead

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I use the rope to warm up but I feel like I get more out of going really heavy on the pushdowns with a straight or ez bar attachment.

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's good but the form of the guy in pic is shit. Arms need to start off from way higher, and when going all the way done spread the rope to put maximum pressure on the tricep.

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