Can someone provide a breakdown list of exercises that target the different parts of the tricep?
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Thread: The 3 parts of the tricep
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08-01-2011, 08:20 PM #1
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08-01-2011, 09:04 PM #2
To me, it's either if an exercise targets the long head or not. The lateral and medial head goes together (same function, duh). The long head is worked when your triceps are in a stretched position (overhead), away from body (skullcrusher), and also shoulder extension (pullover). A good all-in-one exercise is a mix between a skullcrusher and pullover. Mark Rippetoe explains it in this video: http://startingstrength.com/index.ph...ceps_extension.
Lateral and medial: common triceps exercises, kickbacks, skullcrushers, pushdowns
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08-01-2011, 09:48 PM #3
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08-01-2011, 10:35 PM #4
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08-05-2011, 08:36 PM #5
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08-05-2011, 09:15 PM #6
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08-05-2011, 11:06 PM #7
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08-06-2011, 04:28 PM #8
I wish to understand how this works. Any idea why supination would target the medial and pronation would target the lateral? It's confusing for me. I understand how it affects elbow flexors since biceps attach to the radius so moving it changes their length... but all the triceps attach to the same insertion on the tip of the ulna, right? So how does changing the radius position change the tricep head recruitment? Perplexing.
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08-06-2011, 07:08 PM #9
Here is an old thread that gets into this topic extensively:*http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hlight=triceps
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08-08-2011, 08:26 AM #10
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I honestly can't answer that off the top of my head without doing some research.
To be honest although it's pretty well recognised that a supinated grip and pronated grip will target different heads it's not something i put into practice with clients or in my own training (exept sometimes the long head). IMO worrying about these things is overcomplicating it, unless you're an elite level bodybuilder then most people lke me just need to worry about contracting the triceps as a whole rarther than thinking of it as 3 seperate muscles.
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08-08-2011, 10:18 AM #11
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08-15-2012, 05:41 AM #12
Here guys... very informative video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz73VdbpIPs==Man becomes what he thinks about==
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08-15-2012, 05:45 AM #13
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