Best mass builder for TRICEPS?

[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.