am i the only one that uses reverse-grip curls for triceps?

[mt.trapezius]

my question is whether a reverse-grip curl (say with an EZ-Bar) works your triceps. i incorporate them when work triceps and it gives me one heck of a burn in the long head of my triceps. my main argument is that, on this site, reverse-grip curls are listed as working the forearms.......am i really the only one that uses these to work my triceps?

[brakloes]

I could see a reverse grip skull crusher working the triceps, AND living up to its name....sounds like something willie coyote would do. As to them working your triceps, maybe you are tensing to keep your arm in place? They are designed to work the brachial radialis muscle that one on the forarm/arm junction (top), and also brachalis (spelling) which is hidden under the bicep....give the arm thickness from the front. If they develop your tri's run with it..but that is my two cents

[bubba g]

my question is whether a reverse-grip curl (say with an EZ-Bar) works your triceps. i incorporate them when work triceps and it gives me one heck of a burn in the long head of my triceps. my main argument is that, on this site, reverse-grip curls are listed as working the forearms.......am i really the only one that uses these to work my triceps?

If I had to guess I would say yeah.... it is a forearm/bicep excersise. the ony way it would hit your triceps is if you hung upside down... which I do not recommend.

[TheOak]

u must have pretty funky tris to feel it in them.

[$AJ]

i doubt you're going to ge tmuch from it. stop trying to re-invent the wheel

[brakloes]

......I have a car with triangle hybrid wheels..it stops fast and doesnt need a parking break

[$AJ]

......I have a car with triangle hybrid wheels..it stops fast and doesnt need a parking break

lol

are you really a cscs?

[aiwass]

I do reverse grip skullcrushers (or, as $AJ insists, 'triceps extensions', as they are behind the head).

[Uriel_da_man]

And I thought I'd seen everything...

[paingame]

I do reverse grip skullcrushers (or, as $AJ insists, 'triceps extensions', as they are behind the head).

i knew some one did them but i thought that was dd im not saying he also does tham though

[brakloes]

I do reverse grip skullcrushers (or, as $AJ insists, 'triceps extensions', as they are behind the head).

That would be an extension...do you really use a reverse grip? I should try that I can see how it would keep the hands in closer to the head. I always use a hand under grip when I do overhead extensions.

AJ yes I am a CSCS, got cards and eveything

[$AJ]

That would be an extension...do you really use a reverse grip? I should try that I can see how it would keep the hands in closer to the head. I always use a hand under grip when I do overhead extensions.

AJ yes I am a CSCS, got cards and eveything

coo.


myself, i think you'd have to be pretty stupid to use a reverse grip on extensions that's just an accident waiting to happen.

[ohiobowhunter75]

They are correct,reverse curls stress the supinator muscles in conjunction with the brachialis of the upper arm.Secondary stress is to the biceps.

[Work_Smarter]

I'm going to have to agree with everyone else on this one. I've never heard of it for a tricept exercise.

[johnsbod]

I'm going to have to agree with everyone else on this one. I've never heard of it for a tricept exercise.

I didn't know I had a "tricept." lol

[bubba g]

I didn't know I had a "tricept." lol

yep everyone has them... they are that small muscle that connects your quadrangles to your trapazoids....lol.. j/k

[Defiant1]

my question is whether a reverse-grip curl (say with an EZ-Bar) works your triceps. i incorporate them when work triceps and it gives me one heck of a burn in the long head of my triceps. my main argument is that, on this site, reverse-grip curls are listed as working the forearms.......am i really the only one that uses these to work my triceps?

I have a sneaky suspicion you mean BICEPS, and that you feel reverse curls in the long head of your BICEPS, not just your forearms.

Reverse curls do work the long head (outer) part of your biceps.

[MrSinister]

your tris would be stabilising and nothing more, pump u feel is nothing.
Doing them reverse grip altogether on a pushdown, now THAT works

[Revolver45]

You're probably getting a burn more from a stretch and stabilization than anything. If you're gonna do reverse grip anything for tris make it reverse grip tricep extensions or pressdowns.

[Deleted1147]

the only thing any form of a curl would do for the triceps is stretch them. Its impossible for a curl to work your triceps.

[mt.trapezius]

I have a sneaky suspicion you mean BICEPS, and that you feel reverse curls in the long head of your BICEPS, not just your forearms.

Reverse curls do work the long head (outer) part of your biceps.

that may be so.....but whatever i'm doing, i feel in what i had always thought was the long head of your triceps ( the part on the back of your brachii that , in my case burns, and starts just above the elbow and extends upward for about 5-6 inches). is this really your 2nd head of your biceps?

[mt.trapezius]

the only thing any form of a curl would do for the triceps is stretch them. Its impossible for a curl to work your triceps.

hmmm.....you have a point!!! never realized that 'till just now! (i forgot all the crap my anatomy class taught me, but it is a "rectus"/straightening muscle and therefore, "its impossible for a curl to work your triceps."

[Defiant1]

that may be so.....but whatever i'm doing, i feel in what i had always thought was the long head of your triceps ( the part on the back of your brachii that , in my case burns, and starts just above the elbow and extends upward for about 5-6 inches). is this really your 2nd head of your biceps?

If it is in FRONT of the upper arm bone, it is the long head of the biceps or the brachialis.

The long head of the triceps is in BACK of the upper arm bone, from the rear shoulder down the elbow.