Most home gyms have a cable attached to weights that can be used for triceps pushdown exercises of various sorts. You can also do triceps exercises with a barbell ("skull crushers") and dumbbells (kickbacks and various others.) The triceps are the three-headed muscle on the upper arm. Everyone is familiar with the biceps (Popeye's famous muscle that bursts out when he eats spinach.) But the triceps is an especially important muscle to work out if you are WOMAN because a firm triceps will keep your arm from having that flap that "flag waves" under your upper arm. (Of course it helps to lose weight as well. Fat seems to accumulate on that area.) It's actually a very large muscle, so working the triceps in various ways is important for men or women. So why these three different attachment? They work a slightly different part of the triceps. The rope, the v bar and the straight bar isolate the triceps and if you do each attachment as a push down, you will feel how the effort is completely different for the same amount of weight. For example, the rope theoretically isolates more of the lateral head of the muscle--the part of the triceps that is located on the outside border of the upper arm. If you look at a well-developed body builder, this is the horseshoe-shaped muscle on outside of his upper arm. Naturally, to develop the entire muscle, you should mix in other exercises like dips, skull crushers, overhead extensions and yeah, pushups, there are many, many. Some isolate, some use other muscles so each exercise has a different effect on developing the upper arm. In addition, these can be used for overhead pulls, biceps curls, lat pulldowns, so this is a versatile set. If you have acquired a cable machine with weights, this is a very handy set of accessories and in fact, this is probably my most-used set of attachments for our home weight machine.
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