Jason demonstrates cable crossovers with a trainer, starting with standard form using an offset stance and emphasizing the stretch and squeeze at full range. A lean-over variation lets you load heavier weight and go deeper, like a reverse fly. Key cues: push your chest up, squeeze, and crush the resistance.
Cable crossovers and its many variations. So I'm here with Jason today who's getting ready for a comp. Jason, show us the standard cable crossover that most folks do. So people are going to be standing up, usually they're using an offset stance, so one foot in front of the other. And you can see when Jason does this, I'm just going to let him run as he does it, and he's squeezing his pec through. Now, some things to consider when we're doing this cable crossover is that the easiest part of the motion is— if I just use Jason— from there to there is the easiest part of the motion. Most of the tension on this exercise is at that end range. So you really want to get that stretch and that squeeze. Now, if I am personal training a client, what I'll often do is put my hands here in the middle and get them to push all the way through. What I'm doing there is creating more of an even strength curve throughout the motion. So you can see there, more of an even curve for the strength curve. So this is a standard way. Jason's going to do one more, then I'll show you another variation. So then I'll get Jason to demonstrate a few of those. So we're going Relax, Jason. All right. So we'll get Jason, I'll talk you through the points of this one. He's going to be leaning right over, which allows us to use a little bit more weight this way. And it's almost like a reverse fly. So as if I'm training with him, if I'm training him, I should say, and again, really go nice and deep with this one, because it allows almost like the reverse of a bench. So on a bench, you'd be lying and doing it with dumbbells. Here you're in the reverse position, so you can afford to go a little bit deeper on that stretch. And again and again and again, same principle on that strength curve. Here's the hardest, easiest part. So I'm going to give him a bit of resistance and squeeze it. Push your chest up, push your chest up, push your chest up as you squeeze. It's a really important cue. And again, so as you do this, the end point, you want to push your chest up and squeeze. You can see his veins are really coming out now. Let's just do one more, one more. And squeeze, crush my hand, crush my hand, crush my hand. Good, excellent.
