Incline Bench Overhead Pressdown

Incline Bench Overhead Pressdown. In my opinion, this movement is the triceps equivalent of concentration curls. It removes the temptation of using your abdominal muscles to complete the range of motion. In other words, it offers an incredible degree of isolation. This exercise also offers the advantage of being suitable for a trainee suffering from a bout of lower back pain. I often prescribe this movement last in a triceps workout, after a high percentage of triceps motor units have been knocked off by other exercises.
  Simply put an incline bench in front of a high pulley (so that when you sit down, you’re facing away from the machine). Adjust the incline to about 60 degrees. Grasp a straight-bar handle and, with your upper arms glued to your torso, extend the forearms. You are, in essence, doing a fairly traditional pressdown, but doing it on an incline bench allows you to keep perfect form. Atlantis has a piece of equipment especially designed for this. When you think about it clearly, it is a way to do pressdowns without cheating by using lats and abdominals to take a share of the load.