How to do the Standing Cable Chest Press

Steps

1. Position dual pulleys to chest height and select an appropriate weight. Stand a foot or two in front of the cables, holding one in each hand. You can stagger your stance for better stability.
2. Position the upper arm at a 90 degree angle with the shoulder blades together. This will be your starting position.
3. Keeping the rest of the body stationary, extend through the elbows to press the handles forward, drawing them together in front of you.
4. Pause at the top of the motion, and return to the starting position.

Tracking it in OneRep

Add the standing cable chest press to a routine and your previous weight and reps sit beside every set, so the decision to add load is made by what is already on the screen rather than by memory. Exercise history and volume trends are one tap away, and logging works offline for the gyms where signal does not reach.

Because OneRep tracks food on the same timeline, a stall on this lift can be read against what you were actually eating that month — which is the difference between a programming problem and an eating one. More on that in tracking progressive overload without a spreadsheet.

Where the instructions come from

The steps above come from free-exercise-db, a public-domain exercise dataset. They are general guidance, not coaching for your body: if a movement hurts, stop and get someone qualified to look at it.