Cable Chest Press

What it is

This seated pushing exercise uses cable resistance to build strength in your pectoral muscles. You will also engage your shoulders and triceps as secondary movers. It is a compound movement, targeting multiple muscle groups effectively.

Technique tips

• Keep your elbows bent at 90 degrees to start.
• Retract your shoulder blades throughout the press.
• Maintain constant tension on the cables.
• Exhale as you extend the handles forward.
• Experiment with incline or decline angles.

How to track your progress

Log the weight and reps of each set. Straddly turns every set into an estimated one-rep max, so a heavier single and a strong set of eight both count as progress, and it flags a personal record the moment you beat your best.