Why can people handle more weight on biceps exercises and not triceps exercises?

[stonecold9120]

I saw the video where Kali muscle curled 275 pounds, but his triceps are weak as s***.

[2bars]

Probably from doing a lot of biceps training and very little triceps training? Kind of common sense here.

I find it hard to do triceps isolation movements, feels rougher on the elbows the more your stretch, the biceps seem easier to train iso on.

[Malfurion]

Because it's much easier to cheat on bicep exercises

[oldballs]

I saw the video where Kali muscle curled 275 pounds, but his triceps are weak as s***.

Post said video.

[JOoa0ky]

Um... think about how much you close grip bench vs how much you barbell curl.

[mtownballer20]

Because it's much easier to cheat on bicep exercises

Very true.

Um... think about how much you close grip bench vs how much you barbell curl.

This x100. Shouldn't be a close comparison

[stonecold9120]

Post said video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=varypr1VY0w

[Silentpoet]

I can curl maybe 105 or so. I can floor press 205, 2 board press 215 for 3.

[Kenacillin]

For a more direct comparison, try this: Go to a pulley machine and do tricep pushdown with a straightbar. Compare this weight with bicep curl with the same bar on a low pulley. The two motions have a very similar range of motion with the load/force going in different directions.

The triceps should be stronger since anatomically, the three heads naturally compose over 60% of the arm (atleast, for most people).

[IDrinkBloodLOL]

Vid is fake kids.

His weight: ~240
That curl: 275

I know it's fake because I at about 200 have curled near bodyweight before as the strength of my curl is as important to me as squat/bench/dead for my own personal reasons, and speaking from experience that shiit doesn't look like what kali was doing.

Compare this:



To this:



...or this:



You can either basically drag curl it so it stays over your center of gravity the whole time, OR you can swing your body ridiculously.

Allegedly there's a third way to do it and it involves putting one leg forward to stabilize you, but I can't find a video of it and I've never had any luck with it. In a nutshell though, that guy's form is impossible with the percentage of bodyweight he's allegedly lifting.

[scoobychris555]

Um... think about how much you close grip bench vs how much you barbell curl.

This ^^

Should be able to move a lot more weight with the tricep's, it's just that some folk's neglect them over bicep's for some reason.

[sohei]

I saw the video where Kali muscle curled 275 pounds, but his triceps are weak as s***.

First, it's a cheat curl in the Kali vid. No doubt he could do 225 with more strict form. Second, not so sure about the weak triceps. The guy benches well over 500. If you are comparing exercises like the bicep curl and skullcrushers, it's totally possible that the tricep weight cause like was said above, there is virtually no cheat possible on the skullcrushers and a more legitimate comparison would be to use the close grip press or pressdowns.

[oldballs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=varypr1VY0w

No I wanted the vid of his weak tricepts.

[ironwill2008]

Kali muscle

Who cares? Guy is a dumbass, and so are you if you believe any of the nonsense coming out of his mouth.

[ljusticel]

Idk about you but I can max out the stack at my gyms cable machine and rep til the cows come home with push downs but I'm only good for 120x8-10 for curls on the same machine. Tris should be much stronger than bis imo.