Low to High Cable Crossover
Also known as: low cable crossover
In SetGrip: Cable Crossover (Low to High)
The low to high cable crossover is a standing chest fly between two low pulleys: you sweep the handles up and in from your sides until your wrists cross above your head. It works the chest, with the shoulders and triceps assisting.
How to do the Low to High Cable Crossover
- Set both pulleys at the lowest position, take a handle in each hand and stand in the middle with one foot slightly ahead.
- Start with your arms down and out to the sides, elbows slightly bent.
- Sweep both handles up and in until your wrists cross above your head.
- Lower them along the same arc until you feel a stretch across your chest, and switch which hand crosses on top each rep.
Muscles worked
Common mistakes
- Turning it into a front raise — keep the elbow bend fixed and think of hugging upward; straight arms lifting ahead hand the work to the shoulders.
- Shrugging at the top — keep your shoulder blades down as your hands rise, so the upper chest finishes the rep, not the traps.
- Leaning back — stay tall over a staggered stance; arching back to finish moves the work to the front of the shoulders.
Where it fits in a workout
Do it after your main pressing work as a finisher for the upper chest.
How many sets, how heavy and how hard: see what the ACSM position stands support.
Logging the Low to High Cable Crossover in SetGrip
SetGrip logs the Low to High Cable Crossover as weight and reps. Log the setting of one stack and add a routine note saying so, so your history stays consistent.
Variations and alternatives
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When to talk to someone
- Chest discomfort, feeling faint or lightheaded, or trouble breathing during or after exercise can be signs of a heart attack. In the US, call 911 right away; elsewhere, call your local emergency number.
- Heart, metabolic or kidney disease, or symptoms like these when you are active: talk to your doctor before you start or step up training.
- Pregnant: ask your obstetric care provider which exercise suits you.
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Sources
- ACSM position stand on exercise quantity and quality (Garber et al., 2011)
- ACSM preparticipation health screening (Riebe et al., 2015)
- ACOG Committee Opinion No. 804 on exercise in pregnancy (2020)
- CDC: About Heart Attack Symptoms, Risk, and Recovery (2024)
Sources checked on October 17, 2026. Full citations are in the exercise library.
Animation and exercise data: ExerciseDB, licensed to SetGrip. Text: SetGrip. General information, not medical or coaching advice.