Tricep pull down attachments

[bushmaster21]

I have tried the V attachment, and rope. Got a better pump with the rope. Recently I tried overhand just on a straight bar and i got a CRAZY pump and bad DOMS.

What is your favorite tricep pull down attachment?

 

[laclark89]

if u wana get a little heavy with it and push some weight I will use the metal v attachment if I wana get a get a good pump and some flexion and extension I will use the rope.

So I'll go lower heavier reps v handle , lighter higher volume rope.

 

[buck]

I use the handle which allows me to use good form with the highest weight load.

 

[malfeasance]

I have used all three. I thought the rope was great at first, then, after a while, I found it just did not work as well. I could never get the straight bar to work well. I am back to the V bar I was using before, and it works great.

The biggest deal for me is getting a good stretch at the top. It seems like everybody else is just worried about the contraction at the bottom.

 

[bushmaster21]

I use the handle which allows me to use good form with the highest weight load.

Which one is that?

 

[bushmaster21]

I have used all three. I thought the rope was great at first, then, after a while, I found it just did not work as well. I could never get the straight bar to work well. I am back to the V bar I was using before, and it works great.

The biggest deal for me is getting a good stretch at the top. It seems like everybody else is just worried about the contraction at the bottom.

Do you mean like the negative?

I try to make my reps slow and controlled. I was told so many times the negative on your last few sets are the ones that stretch the muscle the most

 

[bob357sig]

Give reverse grip straight bar a try. You obviously have to use less weight but it gives me a nice pump more in my inner tricep.

 

[malfeasance]

Do you mean like the negative?

I try to make my reps slow and controlled. I was told so many times the negative on your last few sets are the ones that stretch the muscle the most

Not really. I mean, I do control the negative, but I also go all the way up until my tricep is stretched, pause, and then start pushing again. I see most guys do it the way I used to do it, fast and only going partway up before huffing and pushing it back down quickly.

I modified this to stretch all the way to the top, getting a fuller range of motion, and I stopped squeezing so hard and long at the bottom as if that were the most important part of the exercise and this were some sort of isometrics program.

Watch a Youtube video of Mike Wyk going this exercise if you want to get a better idea of what I am talking about visually rather than trying to figure out what I am writing in my poor narrative description above.