How to Do the Cable Woodchop Exercise

The cable woodchop is an exercise performed with a cable frame in the gym or even with elastic bands or tubes at home.

It involves a chopping motion across the body from high to low. The value of this exercise is that it simulates to some extent the activity that occurs in many sports: swinging a bat or stick or throwing while twisting the torso.

Of course, this approximate movement is slightly different in any number of sports such as baseball, golf, tennis, hockey or cricket. But even without a stick, bat or racket, the twisting motion of the abdominals under load is a prominent movement in many sports, including football and basketball.

• How to Do the Cable Woodchop