Reverse Grip Triceps Pushdown

What it is

This isolation exercise targets your triceps muscles, helping to build strength and definition in the back of your upper arms. You perform it using a high cable pulley, pushing a bar attachment downwards with an underhand, or supinated, grip. This movement specifically emphasizes triceps engagement through elbow extension.

Technique tips

• Keep your elbows tucked firmly against your sides.
• Maintain stationary upper arms; only forearms should move.
• Use an underhand, palms-up grip on the bar.
• Exhale forcefully as you push the bar down.
• Inhale slowly as you return the bar to the starting position.
• Squeeze your triceps hard at the bottom of each repetition.

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.