triceps

Fellas, how many of you started lifting with the goal of having huge arms? Many of you, right? That’s what I thought. Unless you just started training recently, you know getting big arms is more than banging out curls. You have to make sure you hit those triceps and hit them hard since they...

When it comes to choosing exercises for a specific body part it’s important to choose wisely. Keeping your training effective and efficient is a tall order with the seemingly endless amount of moves available. Which are the very best for your goals? This isn’t more prevalent than with triceps...

Students of anatomy and kinesiology might have an advantage over the rest of us when it comes to triceps training. Not only do they they know the names of all three heads (lateral, long, and medial), but they also know how each head moves. That means they can figure out the best ways to target...

Growing your arms is actually pretty simple: Isolate your biceps and triceps with curls and extensions (respectively), hammer these moves from Logan Carpenter with volume and intensity, and make sure you’re pounding protein the rest of the day. Repeat weekly. (And don’t forget to train all your...

The triceps may not be as popular of a muscle group to train as the biceps may be, but hitting the back of the upper arms hard will add significant size and play a big role in developing a complete physique. They are also involved in major pressing movements. So having a set of triceps that look...

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The man who wants bigger triceps cannot live on pressdowns alone. Too often, guys in the gym — and maybe you’re one of them — work their triceps to death at the cable pressdown station. Ten sets, 15 sets… whatever it takes to get them sore. But what the pressdown-happy masses don’t seem to...

Ian Spanier / M+F Magazine We’re not going to pretend like dragging a bench over to a cable pulley, setting the cable to low, and attaching a bar isn’t a pain—but, man, is it worth it. Compared with a standard barbell, which is heavy at the bottom and lighter when your arms are locked out, a...

mihailomilovanovic / Getty You may never feel bigger than when your triceps are totally sore and crushed. Usually, this isn’t that tough to achieve – a few sets of pressdowns and dips and you can call it a day. But complete triceps development is not just a function of finding failure on a few...

Mikolette / Getty If bigger, stronger arms are what you’re after, stop with the endless biceps exercises and start concentrating on the muscle group that really matters: your triceps. Your tri's make up at least two-thirds of the mass in your upper arms, and they should be afforded...