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Banded pushdown
Anchor band overhead; grip chest height; push to full extension, elbows fixed.
Muscles
- Primary
- triceps
- Supporting
- None listed
Mechanics
- Pattern
- elbow extension
- Equipment
- band
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Constant tension through extension — hardest at lockout unlike free weights.
- Progression
- Heavier band; add a 1 s squeeze at full extension.
- Regression
- Lightest band available or cable pushdown at low weight.
Watch for
- Elbows flaring out — reduces long-head isolation
- Moving elbows forward — turns into a press
- Cutting range short at lockout
Substitutions
- Cable pushdown
- Rope pushdown
- Close-grip bench