Triceps Workout

Triceps Workout

I believe is having symmetrical muscular look. I’ve seen people focusing too much on one muscle group, and ignoring others. Obviously you would look weird. For example if you’ve nice biceps, but awful looking triceps, that looks odd.

Today we focus on the tricep part. If you want sexy arms, your triceps can make a big difference. Watch this video to see how you can work them out from the comfort of your own home!

Your triceps is the muscle principally responsible for extension of the elbow joint (i.e. straightening of the arm). Though a similarly-named muscle, the triceps surae, is found on the lower leg, the triceps brachii is commonly called simply the “triceps”.

The triceps accounts for approximately 60 percent of the upper arm’s muscle mass. So you can’t ignore this part of your muscle group.

The triceps can be worked through either isolation or compound elbow extension movements, and can contract statically to keep the arm straightened against resistance.

Isolation movements include cable push-downs, lying triceps extensions and arm extensions behind the back. Examples of compound elbow extension include pressing movements like the push up, bench press (flat, incline or decline), military press and dips. A closer grip targets the triceps more than wider grip movements.

Static contraction movements include pullovers, straight-arm pulldowns, and bent-over lateral raises, which are also used to build the deltoids and latissimus dorsi.

Elbow extension is important to many athletic activities. As the biceps is often worked more for aesthetic purposes, this is usually a mistake for fitness training.

While it is important to maintain a balance between the biceps and triceps for postural and effective movement purposes, what the balance should be and how to measure it is a conflicted area. Pushing and pulling movements on the same plane are often used to measure this ratio.