Incline Cable Chest Press

What it is

This exercise primarily targets your chest muscles, effectively building strength in your upper body. It also engages your shoulders and triceps as secondary muscles. You perform this seated push movement using a cable machine, pressing the handles forward.

Technique tips

• Set your elbows at approximately 90 degrees in the starting position.
• Keep your upper arms at about a 45-degree angle to your torso.
• Maintain a proud chest and retract your shoulder blades throughout the press.
• Press the handles together straight in front of you at chest height.
• Control the return, resisting the cable's pull to maintain tension.

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.