Opinions/suggestions on the best exercises for the lateral head of the tricep (the front head or furthest out one), and tricep exercises in general.
My triceps are slacking, greatly, and I plan on changing that by the end of my bulk.
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10-08-2011, 02:42 PM #1
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10-08-2011, 06:48 PM #5
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10-08-2011, 08:36 PM #6
I hate this response. It's not totally incorrect, it's just generic, and uninformative.
Yeah, some people just don't mix with certain exercises. I have extreme difficulty doing hack squats. Don't mess with it if it feels like it's gonna injure you. Unless we're talking squats deads bench or military. Then it's almost always a form error.
Triceps are some of my favorite muscles to train. You cannot isolate a head of a muscle, and all of us want a bigger triceps lateral head. the best thing to do is to add mass hollistically, and then cut them up. For adding mass, my favorite exercises are lying triceps extensions with barbell (to just behind the head, tap knuckles on bench), lying dumbbell extensions, and dumbbell floor presses. now, as far as emphasizing the heads of the muscles, the farther your elbow gets away from your torso, the more you will work the long head of the triceps. The more you focus on lockouts, you will hit the medial head. The lateral head is almost only worked with heavy forcefull movents, though I've been getting good growth from straight bar pushdowns. Don't exclude Dips or close grips, they make work for you, they just don't work the triceps best for me.
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10-08-2011, 08:48 PM #7
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I've heard bad things about dips from older guys in powerlifting. From what I gather it seems to put a lot of stress on something or another (sorry I'm not very specific).
My suggestions are skull crushers behind the head, like Belzoni recommended, close grip bench press, and some sort of cable push down.★★★USF MISC CREW★★★
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10-08-2011, 09:41 PM #9
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mine are honestly massive (not trying to brag)
but ive found, that the best way is one arm rope pull downs. not handle, rope.
do sets like this 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 or 15, 12, 10, 8 or 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, burnoutBest meet lifts (all raw): 865 squat, 565 bench, 720 deadlift.
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