Strengthening the Triceps

[ZZuluZ]

It's what people always say when you want to up your bench. Which asks the question...... what is the most effective way in strengthening the triceps? What exercises, etc...

Thx,

-Zulu

 

[The mann]

jm presses,d/b extensions,do most of your benching with your grip between the smooth and the power rings,4 boards with index on smooth(or close),skull crushers,........

 

[Cubanito17]

Mann those are all great would have put them myself, some others are floor presses, DB elbow out extensions, Tri pushdowns, tri cable extensions, close grip inclined, rack lockouts or lockouts with bands........

 

[TheHighwayman]

Any close-grip type of press is good (bench press, floor press, rack press). I'm not a big fan of tricep isolation exercises, but they seem to work well for a lot of guys. What about weighted dips? Do any of you guys do dips? I've had great results in building tricep strength with heavy weighted dips.

Good luck.

 

[ZZuluZ]

Pushdowns and cable extensions?! You sure?

-Zulu

 

[Cubanito17]

tri pushdowns and cable extensions on speed day if u lift westside well that's when I do them I'm a partial westside lifter so I'll rotate the weeks I do them.

tru almost any close grip is good, I mostly did my dips when I was just weightlifting not powerlifting now I (maybe) do them once a month just for the feel of a diff excercise. I do mine bench to bench with 2 100lb plates on my lap to failure then take 1 100lb off do that to failure then take it off until I dont feel my hands, (if i do them it's on the last day before I rest for 4 days to hit a new max with that much rest I start feeling my tris hurtin on day 2 mostly.

 

[Cubanito17]

i knew i had seen someone else do pushdowns on Dynamic bench day and found 2 world record holders go here http://www.deepsquatter.com/strength/archives/ls26.htm
the way I see it if they work for you go for it do them. One I forgot one of my fav's Tate presses

 

[juice20]

Try doing skull crushers with an olympic bar.Make sure to keep it at an angle.They worked great for me.Also make sure to lower weight as far as possible.

 

[powerlifterjay]

MY favorite are board presses, DB elbow out extensions, one arm over head extensions. And i dont know why but i always finish with tri pushdowns 3 sets of the same weight to failure. Just habit.

 

[endpoint]

pushdowns are shit for strength.......you will never meet anyone who uses them exclusively.

the site listed is one about extra work outs. extra work out are mostly for restoration, hypertrophy and feeding into a nother work out.

push downs are only a finisher exercise......after a good tricep movement. usually used at higher reps lower weight than the first tri exercise

I wouldnt rely on them for strength purposes.