Tricep Rope for your Overall Upper Body Workout

Also called cable ropes, or simply rope attachment, tricep ropes offer a variety of exercises and are very simple to use. But don’t be blindsided by its simplicity; this badass cable attachment can get you an appointment with your chiropractor when you misuse it. So keep in mind these simple guidelines when using the cable rope.

• Have a firm, even grip on the tricep ropes of both hands.
• Keep your left and right hand on the same levels on the tricep rope.
• Your feet should be firmly planted on the floor.
• Slightly bend your knees to make your hips neutral. It’s never good to have locked knees. Doing this when you stand or sit doesn’t exert tension on your legs or the target body part.

Although named the tricep rope, this cable attachment can be considered as a piece of gym equipment in its own right, and not just an accessory, because of the many workout routines you can use it with. This is what you need in your home gym equipment, a fitness product with lots of benefits. We’ve made a list of some of the significant gains you can have using the tricep rope as cable attachment.

Overall Upper Body Strength

Cable ropes or tricep ropes offer a myriad of exercises for your upper body that can shape up and improve all of its features. Tricep rope exercises target your arms, shoulders, back, and abs the most. Some of the workouts you can do with it focus on improving several muscle groups. For instance, doing tricep pushdowns alone targets all three components of your triceps, plus it improves your lockout strength and shoulder muscle mass. When you do cable crunches using the tricep rope, you are aiming for your six-pack abs, shoulders, and lower back. And that’s just two of the several workout routines you can do with this exercise equipment.

Glutes and Hamstring muscles definition and tone

Some of the cable rope exercises like the cable pull-through promote the increase and growth of muscle fibres of your hamstrings and glutes. The exercise increases your muscles’ time under tension and its overall activation of the glutes and hamstrings. Strength and physical improvement of your buttocks and upper thigh area translate to a more robust core, as well as better endurance and stamina.

Functional training

For an exercise to be functional, it should be able to help you with your daily activities. Tricep rope pull exercises are great in developing the strength of your forearms, upper back muscles, and shoulders. They help keep your shoulders square and build you a thick upper back. Strong shoulders are essential to your everyday activities like lifting, pressing, pulling, and rotating your arms. These exercises also engage your abs and legs when appropriately performed. It helps when you lift heavy objects and walk uphill terrains.

Core Engagement

Most of the exercises you do using the tricep rope engage your core. The workout routines develop your lower back, hips, abdomen, and obliques, which are essential for better balance and stability. Your daily activities, as well as any sports activity you are involved in, will require you to have stable core muscles so that you would be able to do them correctly. Without a stable core, your body will quickly tumble when acted upon by an imbalance force. Your abs help you stabilise your own body weight.  Without it, you’re like one of the Three Stooges who always get injured.

Improved Mental Health

As with any exercises, tricep rope workout routines are great in releasing our natural “happy pill” hormone, our endorphins. Endorphins are secreted from all over our bodies and are activated when we feel stressed or in pain. If you’re just like me, you will raise your eyebrows in disagreement at what you just read. But actually, that’s true; the endorphins of our body are released when it senses pain and feels stressed. The secretion of endorphins also leads us to feel a sense of euphoria. Why does the body do that? It does that to reduce our perception of pain and stress, much like morphine, but they are not addictive. So don’t panic. This is why we feel relieved and refreshed after an hour or two of workout sessions.

These are just some of the arrays of benefits you could have when using the cable rope as an attachment to your exercise equipment. It might be a tiny piece of a fitness product, but it could give you so much more gains than you could possibly have compared to other gigantic gym equipment available.