Top 5 Workouts For Better Triceps

Quite a few gym-goers who do weight training, misinterpret that one must focus exclusively on biceps to build size on arms. But you would be surprised to know that it’s actually your triceps that comprises of 66 per cent of your upper arms mass.

To make your arms look, more like a shotgun than a pistol, you need to spend less time on your biceps in the gym, and devote more time on your triceps to get the desired results; well-defined titanic arms.

Here are 5 of the best exercises get your guns growing for triceps!

1. Triceps Dips – It’s one of the most effective and simple to perform move, which doesn’t require any major equipment. A dipping bar or two flat benches is all you need to get going on this style of workout. 

Traditional dips allows the body to handle more weight, therefore, are much better for building overall muscle mass.

2. Close Grip Bench Press - Bench press is the most effective exercise to work on your chest, but a minor change in the grip can expand your arms that destroy all three heads of the triceps at once.

Place your hand closer so your triceps, now lower the weight down until your triceps are parallel to the ground. Hold for a second at the bottom, and then accelerate back upwards.

3. Over-Head Triceps Extensions - Hold one dumbbell and raise your arm behind your head with your elbow bent. Bend elbow, lowering the dumbbell behind your head towards the neck. 

Extend elbow until your arm is almost fully extended. Make sure that the stretch is on the arm and not the forearm. The weight shall go on arms for better and defined results.

4. Cable Push Down - Cable push down is the most common triceps exercise. Surprisingly its results is magnificent.

Save it for the last in your workout schedule and finish your heavy duty workouts before you come to this. You can use the V-bar and straight bar attachments, instead of rope.

5. Barbell Lying Triceps Extension - Load a barbell bar with weight plates, lay on a flat bench with narrow overhead grip on a barbell and extend your arm straight overhead. 

Lower bar, to forehead by bending elbows, Extend arms. Repeat.

- Sanjay Verma

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