Weight Training Advice
Triceps Extension Exercises
concentrate on doing as much, and maybe more, work for the triceps as you do for the biceps.
No triceps weight training routine would be complete with triceps extensions exercises. These exercises basically have you extending your arms with a weight in your hands and bending your elbows to lower the weight, then extending the arms again to complete a rep. Triceps extensions can be done a variety of ways to help build the triceps muscles.
Possibly the most popular form of triceps extensions are lying triceps extensions. This exercise is done by lying on a bench and raising a weight up over your body, bending the elbows and lowering the weight to your forehead, then lifting the weight using your trices muscles to complete a rep. Because you lower the weight to your forehead, this exercise is commomly known as the skullcrusher. You can use either a barbell or a curl bar when you do them. Be cautious about using too much weight as you don't actually want to hit your head. You can also do lying tricep extensions on a decline bench to work the muscles from a different angle.
Seated tricep extensions done with a dumbbell is another very popular form of this exercise. Take a heavy dumbbell and put your hands under one side it. With the arms extended overhead you then lower the dumbbell behind your head then lift it back to the starting position. You can also do seated dumbbell triceps extensions with a dumbbell help in one hand to target one arm at a time. You are best of doing any seated triceps exercise on a bench with back support.
You can also do standing triceps extensions with a barbell or dumbbells. Once again, you start with a weight extended overhead, then lower and raise the weight to complete a rep. You can use a little body english to get an extra rep when doing standing tricep extensions, though you'll want to be very careful if you decide to do this.
Seated overhead cable triceps extensions are another excellent exercise for building mass in the triceps. You'll feel the resistance throughout the entire rep when you do these. You can do them with a straight bar, curl bar, or v-shaped bar.
Once you make triceps extension exercises a part of your weight training routine, you'll be on your way to more upper arm size.
It's essential to train your triceps if you're trying to build bigger arms. While the biceps get all the glory, the triceps actually make up two-thirds of the upper arms muscle size. Because of this you'll need to
