Banded pushdown

Sets, reps and RIR

Bands give the least resistance where you are strongest, so chase reps and control, not load.

RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.

Muscles worked

Primary: Triceps.

What it is called elsewhere

• Norwegian Pushdown med strikk
• Swedish Pushdown med gummiband
• Danish Pushdown med elastik
• German Trizepsdrücken mit Band
• Spanish Extensión de tríceps con banda
• Italian Pushdown con elastico
• Portuguese Tríceps com elástico
• Russian Разгибание рук с резинкой
• French Extension triceps (élastique)

Related arms exercises

• Barbell curl
• EZ-bar curl
• Preacher curl (barbell)
• Skull crushers
• Standing French press
• Reverse curl

athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.