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Easy Cable chest workout (crossover) – an isolated exercise for the muscles of the chest

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Did you know you can do a full chest workout targeting all the muscles that make up your pectoral muscle group, using one single machine? You can! And the machine that makes this possible is the cable machine. Cable Chest Workout Advantages Performing exercises in the Cable Crossover Machine has its own specifics. As for the exercises, such as chest cable crossover, main advantages are as follows: The pectoral muscles are constantly under pressure. The resistance of the cables does not allow them to relax for a second. While doing chest exercises with dumbbells or a barbell, the effort is rather impulsive, in comparison with cable chest exercises. Varying the position of the body and the direction of cable crossover, you can work out various parts of the pectoral muscles. So, for example, if we do a crossover from top to bottom, the lower part of the chest works. If, vice versa, we pull up the handles of the lower blocks, the emphasis is on the top chest. Making the crossover in front of us, we are working on the inner chest. Crossover technique involves stretching the target muscles at the top point. This allows you to increase the amplitude of movement and make the muscle contract as much as possible. Since there are no heavy weights in cable chest workout, it is much safer for the shoulder joints than, say, the bench press.   Cable Chest Exercises Technique Isolation exercises allow you to focus on just one area. You can work on proper technique and load the muscle with an exact amount of weight and reps to work it to exhaustion. The benefits of isolation exercises include targeting specific muscles without stressing any others. Often, in isolation exercises, the technique plays a more significant role than weights. Cable chest fly is no exception. Our task is not to load the muscle to the maximum (there are basic exercises for this), but to make it work so that it grows the way we need. Well, in the case of finishing exercises, we work with already tired muscles, so heavy weights are also irrelevant. Let’s look at the classic cable exercises for chest: Load up the necessary weight on the machine. It should be the same on the right and left. Use such weight that allows you to perform movements completely under control, without jerking. Stand directly in the middle of the station, lean forward slightly with your straight back. Put your feet shoulder width-apart, your knees…

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