Best mass builder for TRICEPS?

[|D_J^B_J|]

What do you bros consider the best exercise/s for triceps?

At the moment i do weighted dips and cable rope pushdowns... Have heard skullcrushers and close grip bench are also good but don't wanna try anything that might make my bench numbers go down...

Any comments/suggestions? What do you find works best for you?

 

[ExtraMile]

What do you bros consider the best exercise/s for triceps?

At the moment i do weighted dips and cable rope pushdowns... Have heard skullcrushers and close grip bench are also good but don't wanna try anything that might make my bench numbers go down...

Any comments/suggestions? What do you find works best for you?

CGBP is good, but I dont like skulls. Lol why would doing CGBP make your bench numbers go down?

 

[Big_BK]

dips for sure are great, i should add them in again. CGBP is also another good 1.

 

[AEKDB]

Weighted Dips

 

[SouthernLord]

Beside the obvious....Weighted dips, CGBP, Reverse grip smith press, skull crushers.... Try some rolling extensions and pullover presses.

 

[bran88]

Weighted dips and close grip, period.

 

[devil deezy]

agree with above statements....... but let me add i like 1 arm days... every workout is used with one arm at a time... that works good for me..

 

[future]

Dips and close grips

 

[b fold the truth]

JM Presses.

 

[SaiBoT]

Weighted dips and tris pullovers...

 

[chucktown04]

I think weighted dips are good and so are nose-breakers using both and inside grip and outside grip. One really great exercise (I can't think of what it's called so I'll explain it) is to take two benches and put your feet on one and do dips on the other bench (like forming a bridge with your body) keeping your back straight. This is a very good exercise that isolates your triceps and you can add weight by having someone place a weight on your abdomen.

 

[chucktown04]

Also, as stated above I don't know why nosebreakers or close grip bench would make your bench press go down if anything it should help!

 

[SpyWizard]

Triceps

* Skull crushers on a decline bench, N/A
* Pushdowns w/ a rope, N/A

Skull crushers are an effective exercise, but doing them on a decline bench keeps them in constant tension through out the whole movement. With a rope, you can add an extra pushing out movement at the bottom of a push down

 

[chucktown04]

Triceps

* Skull crushers on a decline bench, N/A
* Pushdowns w/ a rope, N/A

Skull crushers are an effective exercise, but doing them on a decline bench keeps them in constant tension through out the whole movement. With a rope, you can add an extra pushing out movement at the bottom of a push down

I totally agree with doing skullcrushers on a decline bench it makes a world of difference.

 

[moya]

Weighted dips and tris pullovers...

agree

 

[Unit 2005]

Agree with almost everything so far, the three best are:-

Weighted dips
Skull Crushers
Close Grip Bench Press

Overhead dumbell extensions and pushdowns have thier places too but the above 3 are the best mass builders.

 

[artificialaspirations]

I totally agree with doing skullcrushers on a decline bench it makes a world of difference.

I will try the decline crushers...

I like weighted dips and close-grips but those are two of the most stressful exercises on the shoulder joint...

 

[sunkyman]

The cgbp bother my shoulders if done on a flat bench. For some reason, doing them on a decline bench gives me no trouble at all. I also like cable tri extensions. I'd love to do dips, but again, they put a hurtin' on my fucked up shoulders, particularly if I go for a full range of motion.

 

[b fold the truth]

The cgbp bother my shoulders if done on a flat bench. For some reason, doing them on a decline bench gives me no trouble at all. I also like cable tri extensions. I'd love to do dips, but again, they put a hurtin' on my fucked up shoulders, particularly if I go for a full range of motion.

I've seen the close grip bench press described as an ACTUAL shoulder exercise...not a tricep exercise. Look at how much shoulder rotation and extension you get with the close grip bench.

Look how far below the bench your elbows go when doing a close grip bench while laying flat. Compare that to being on the decline. This is probably why it doesn't bother your shoulders, you have much less shoulder rotation that way.

Go to YouTube and search "Tricep Death" and watch the stuff by EliteFTS.com You will like what you see them doing.

 

[musketeer]

For massive triceps use heavy compound pressing movements regularly, not any type of extension (no ropes, cables or machines) if you work ard enough on:

Dips
Bench press
Overhead press
Push press
Jerks

then you will have no room for skull crushers.

Of all exercises, push press has the most potential for triceps growth; you're ramming 130% of your best shoulder press overhead, locking it out forcefully and then resisting it on the negative, you get terrible soreness pretty quickly.

 

[JDid23]

For massive triceps use heavy compound pressing movements regularly, not any type of extension (no ropes, cables or machines) if you work ard enough on:

Dips
Bench press
Overhead press
Push press
Jerks

then you will have no room for skull crushers.

Of all exercises, push press has the most potential for triceps growth; you're ramming 130% of your best shoulder press overhead, locking it out forcefully and then resisting it on the negative, you get terrible soreness pretty quickly.

quick ? on push press.... do you reccomend it vs OH Press? i actually did clean and push press when i was only 3-4 weeks into my training, and i got 95x5. Then, i switched to strict military press and i got to 90x4, and that was completely fucking brutal. I never thought of the part about the negative though.. the push press to me just seemed like i wasn't really doing the whole lift with mainly my upper body and almost seemed like i was cheating my shoulders.

 

[ExtraMile]

quick ? on push press.... do you reccomend it vs OH Press? i actually did clean and push press when i was only 3-4 weeks into my training, and i got 95x5. Then, i switched to strict military press and i got to 90x4, and that was completely fucking brutal. I never thought of the part about the negative though.. the push press to me just seemed like i wasn't really doing the whole lift with mainly my upper body and almost seemed like i was cheating my shoulders.

you ever heard of doing negatives? where you use a weight and when u hit failure your partner assists you to get more rep but you lower it yourself, or you take a weight higher than your 1rm and your partner helps lift it up but you just resist it on the way down? these work well because your lowering more weight than you could handle normally, so the muscles fibres are worked in a way they couldnt normally be worked.

this is why power movements like pushpress and dynamic shrugs work so well, because you still have to lower a weight much above your 1rm of the stricter versions


on the tri note, dips and cgbp really are the monster mass builders for tri's, if you cant to weighted dips because of shoulder problems, try decline rolling db extensions as SL mensioned, they are SICK

 

[AEKDB]

Of all exercises, push press has the most potential for triceps growth; you're ramming 130% of your best shoulder press overhead, locking it out forcefully and then resisting it on the negative, you get terrible soreness pretty quickly.

If pushpress > military press, then wouldn't jerks > pushpress.

 

[musketeer]

Three points (remember we are talking about mass, not strength or power):

You don't/can't jerk for reps (certainly no more than 3 reps if you do) mass is best effected at higher reps 5-12

You don't resist the negative on jerks, you control drop it

The second knee bend where you drop under the bar and split/spread your legs eliminates much of the working ROM for the shoulders - because it's the most efficient way of getting the bar up it reduces the work the triceps has to do.

 

[JDid23]

EM- yeah i know what negatives are.. although what i said seemed kind of weird lol.

musk- So would you say that for complete upper body strength, strict military press w/ no leg drive is better even with a considerable amount of less weight on the bar

 

[|D_J^B_J|]

Bump for the above question...

Say you can push press 130% of the weight you can military press, are push presses (with some slight help from the hips and knees) better for upper body size and strength than strict military presses?

 

[artificialaspirations]

Bump for the above question...

Say you can push press 130% of the weight you can military press, are push presses (with some slight help from the hips and knees) better for upper body size and strength than strict military presses?

they are both good and when performed together in a training program will compliment each other nicely with strength gains.

the push press will help the military and the strict press will help the push press.

 

[JDid23]

they are both good and when performed together in a training program will compliment each other nicely with strength gains.

the push press will help the military and the strict press will help the push press.

if you had to choose between the two, which one would you rather have in your routine?

 

[musketeer]

EM- yeah i know what negatives are.. although what i said seemed kind of weird lol.

musk- So would you say that for complete upper body strength, strict military press w/ no leg drive is better even with a considerable amount of less weight on the bar

I'd go with push press if I could only choose one.

My old shoulder routine was push press & cheat laterals.

Now I'm into oly lifting so I do overhead press once a week, push press once a week, and jerk twice.