Triceps Pushdown - V-Bar Attachment

What it is

This isolation exercise effectively targets your triceps muscles, the large muscles on the back of your upper arms. You'll use a cable machine with a V-bar attachment to push the weight down, extending your arms fully. It is a beginner-friendly movement focusing purely on arm extension.

Technique tips

• Keep your upper arms locked against your torso.
• Fully extend your arms to feel a strong triceps contraction.
• Control the weight on the slow return to the starting position.
• Exhale as you push the bar down; inhale as you release.
• Maintain a slight forward lean and avoid using body momentum.

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.