I found that many people in the gym exercise their triceps by pulling down the triceps pulley. When they exercise, they act like playing with an electric drill. When they do it, they lean forward, then straighten their arms, then pull down quickly, and occasionally add weight. But in fact, this kind of electric drill pulley pull-down actually has no effect and can't achieve the purpose of exercising your triceps, because it can't exercise your triceps at all.

If you try to do the triceps pulley pull-down with standard movements and choose the electric drill pulley pull-down, you will find that compared with the standard posture, the electric drill pulley pull-down can pull heavier weights, but this does not mean that you will practice your triceps more. On the contrary, it is because other muscles of your body disperse these weights.

The standard triceps pull-down is that when you practice, you should first put your elbows on your sides and keep your hands away from your body. At first, you should pull the rope down to the level of your chest, then hold your chest out and pull it down with your elbow as the fulcrum until your elbow is straight.

When your hand is away from your body, you will find it more difficult to pull down, because when you keep the rope away from your body and your arm rotates, pulling the rope with your elbow as the fulcrum will bear more weight than pulling the rope directly to your body.

And the kind of electric drill pulley that we just mentioned pulls down, that is, the arm pulls the rope close to our chest and then pulls it down with the elbow. You can try to feel these two movements, and you will find the weight that can be pulled by the pull-down action of the electric drill. When you put your arms away from your body, it may be difficult for you to pull them. This is because your arm posture is different, and your triceps bear more weight.

Many people don't know that they are pulling down with an electric drill pulley when doing it, because the initial movement may be very standard, but after doing many groups, the movement will be deformed, the body will always lean forward and the elbow will start to move outward. This change will make them slow and labor-saving, thus becoming electric drills.

The reason why the electric drill pulley pull-down has no exercise effect on triceps is because when you lean forward and your elbows are outward, it is actually an action that your triceps borrow money from other muscles. You push the rope down with all your strength, using the strength of your chest, shoulders and back.

Another point is that in the state of electric drill, because your body leans forward, the movement becomes easier, so in most cases your arm is not completely straight, but the extension of elbow joint is very important for triceps. If you want to exercise the advantages of triceps and make your muscles fully contract, then your arms need to be fully extended during exercise, even to the back of your body.

For this action, what matters is not the weight you can pull down every time, but the stretching feeling your triceps feel during this action. Only by adjusting the elbow position correctly will you not borrow other muscles of your body. So stop the meaningless electric drill, master the correct pulley pull-down posture and exercise your muscles!