Cross-body cable triceps extension

Sets, reps and RIR

Single-joint work responds to reps and time under tension more than to heavy 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.

Estimate your one-rep max

Epley's formula, from a set you have actually done. It is an estimate, and it drifts above eight reps, so keep the input between one and twelve.

What it is called elsewhere

• Norsk Triceps extension over kroppen (kabel)
• Svenska Triceps extension över kroppen (kabel)
• Dansk Triceps extension over kroppen (kabel)
• Deutsch Trizepsdrücken über Kreuz am Kabel
• Español Extensión de tríceps cruzada (polea)
• Italiano Estensioni per tricipiti incrociate ai cavi
• Português Tríceps cruzado (polia)
• Русский Разгибание руки поперёк корпуса на блоке
• Français Extension triceps croisée à la poulie

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.