💪 Tricep Pushdown Form Guide
Sculpt strong triceps with perfect form.
SportsReflector AI analyzes your Tricep Pushdown by tracking key body landmarks including your elbows, shoulders, and wrists. We monitor elbow extension angle, ensuring full lockout without hyperextension, and shoulder stability to prevent unwanted movement. The AI also assesses torso angle and grip position for optimal muscle engagement and injury prevention.
Primary Muscles
Triceps Brachii
Equipment
Cable Machine, Rope/Bar Attachment
AI Score Categories
5 metrics tracked
What AI Analyzes in Your Tricep Pushdown
SportsReflector tracks 5 key metrics to generate your 0–100 form score.
AI Form Score
Every Tricep Pushdown session gets an overall form score plus category-level scoring for each metric above.
4 Tricep Pushdown Mistakes AI Catches
These are the most common Tricep Pushdown form errors — and the ones most likely to cause injury or limit your progress.
Allowing the elbows to move away from the body during the pushdown reduces the isolation on the triceps and can place undue stress on the shoulder joint. This often indicates using too much weight or poor control.
Fix: Keep elbows tucked close to the sides of your torso throughout the entire movement. Imagine your elbows are 'pinned' in place, only allowing the forearm to move.
Not fully extending the elbows at the bottom or not allowing a full stretch at the top limits the muscle's time under tension and restricts full triceps activation, hindering hypertrophy and strength gains.
Fix: Ensure a complete elbow extension, aiming for a near-straight arm at the bottom of the movement. Allow the triceps to fully stretch by letting the forearms come up to approximately parallel with the floor at the top.
Leaning forward excessively or rocking the torso to generate momentum indicates that the weight is too heavy. This reduces triceps isolation and shifts the work to the back and shoulders, increasing the risk of lower back strain.
Fix: Maintain a stable, slightly forward-leaning torso throughout the exercise. Engage your core to prevent rocking and ensure the movement is driven solely by the triceps. Reduce the weight if necessary.
Allowing the wrists to excessively flex (bend backward) or extend (bend forward) during the movement can lead to wrist discomfort or injury, especially with heavier loads, and reduces the direct force transfer to the triceps.
Fix: Keep your wrists straight and neutral, in line with your forearms. Imagine you're holding a rigid bar, maintaining a strong, stable grip without bending at the wrist.
Muscles Worked
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