Come get some great tricep workout routines. Just one more great workout to add when you create a workout routine for yourself. Triceps incorporate the majority of your arm mass, so building up your triceps go farther than building up your biceps if you want awesome arm development. For you girls, a good triceps workout can mean the difference between giggly, underarm triceps and sleek, toned and sexy arms.
I love training triceps. My triceps workout routines are pretty basic, as you don’t need anything fancy to develop great triceps, you just need a great tricep workout routine. My triceps workout has given me nice symmetry, good size, and they are striated and defined like you wouldn’t believe.
Your triceps can be like that too, perhaps minus the striations for you girls. You guys might like them though. Gotta have pretty low body fat levels and have a good amount of muscle to see them though.
If your have a good triceps workout in hand, and you train hard, your triceps can and will be awesome.
There are quite a few exercises you can do for a great triceps workout. Tricep workout routines don’t need to be anything exotic. More often than not, it really is best just to pick one and work it hard. Since you will be getting lots of triceps work when you do chest and shoulders, you don’t need many exercises to give you beautiful, symmetrical triceps development.
In my own workouts, I only perform one exercise for triceps, because really that’s all you need. You just have to pick a good triceps exercise is all. Lucky you, I just gave you a list of the best ones.
Exercise Execution:
1. Tricep Pushdowns: Standing in front of a high pulley. Take an overhand grip with your hands on the bar approximately 6-12 inches apart. Start with your upper arms close to the side of your body and your forearms a little past parallel. Push down on the bar until your arms lock out. Return to the starting position.
Triceps pushdowns can be done with many different pulley attachments. The straight bar described is the most common, however using a knurled bar or rope can be used as an effective alternative. I alternate between the rope and the straight bar for variety myself.
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2. Tricep Dips: With your feet up on a bench or on the floor and your hands facing forward and gripping the edge of a bench behind you, press with your triceps until your arms lock out. Lower yourself down until your arms are approximately bent at 90 degrees. Press back up. Repeat.
3. Lying Tricep Extension: Take a knurled bar in an overhand grip, approximately 6-12 inches apart. Lying on a flat bench, press the bar straight up above your shoulders to start. Slowly lower the weight to your nose of forehead, keeping you upper arms straight. Return to the starting position. Repeat.
4. Overhead Tricep Extensions: Take a knurled bar in an overhand grip, approximately 6-12 inches apart. Sitting on a flat bench, press the bar straight up above your head to start. Slowly lower the weight to behind your head, keeping you upper arms straight. Return to the starting position. Repeat.
Standing triceps extensions can be done with a single dumbbell in both hands or single/ alternating dumbbells for variation. All are effective.
5. Dumbbell Kickbacks: With a dumbbell in hand, bend over at the waist and brace yourself with your other hand using a flat bench. Keeping your upper arm close beside your body, raise your forearm until it is parallel with the floor and contract your tricep muscle. Return to the starting position, where your forearm is vertical. Repeat.
Breath in as you lower the weight(the easiest part of the exercise), and breath out as you raise the weight(the hardest part of the exercise).
Use the following set and rep schedule for each exercise in the tricep workout routines above.
Set 1: Use approximately 60% of work set weight for 10-12 reps. Set 2: Use approximately 70% of work set weight for 6-8 reps. Set 3: Use approximately 85% of work set weight for 1-2 reps. Set 4: Work set weight for 4-6 reps.
Rest time between sets should be just enough time for your breath to almost return to normal. Approximately 1-2 minutes.
Work Set Weight: The weight used in an exercise where you do as many reps as you can until you can’t do any more. This is called going to failure. Once you can perform 6 reps or more, add more weight to overload the muscle in order to increase intensity and get stronger.
TRAINING DAYS:
One day on. Two to three days off. Repeat.
Final Thoughts
Getting fantastic tricep development doesn’t take much. Mostly just the effort to do the triceps workout. One or two exercises for your triceps workout routines are all you need. Preferably just stick to one exercise. You really don’t need any more.
Work hard, you'll build muscle and you’ll have triceps development that’ll be the envy of all your friends.
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*If you have any questions about these Tricep Workout Routines, please feel free to contact me and I'll be glad to answer your questions.