Wood Chop, Up to down seated, step 1 in the progression

This great cable exercise for the obliques starts by having you sit with perfect posture on a bench with your hips aligned perpendicular to the weight stack and a handle in the top position. Grasp the handle first with the hand furthest away from the cable then lock the other hand over it. Sit away from the machine far enough so that the weight stack is "loaded" throughout the movement. Keeping your arms straight while maintaining impeccable posture and spinal alignment pull the handle diagonally from high to low, coming from outside the hip closest to the cable to outside the opposite shoulder with your arms high, extended through the thoracic spine. Other than that nice high reach there is no flexion and extension in the back.

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