Awesome Triceps Exercise
Jan
22
2009
Here’s a great triceps exercise that I’ve been using to boost my triceps strength in my quest to hit 225 pounds on the standing shoulder press.
I’m not a kettle bell expert by any means, but using a bell does make this exercise a lot better (harder) then using a traditional dumbbell.
Be sure not to drop the kettlebell on your head!
BP
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Brad,
What about an overhead tricep extension? I find the leverage the kettlebell design affords makes an overhead tricep extension much harder (as compared to using a dumbbell) using a similar grip to what you use in your video. On the same subject, using a lighter kettlebell (relative to what you’d use weight-wise with a dumbbell) to do hammer curls whereby you keep the end of the bell “out” makes for a great burn, as well. To visualize what I mean on the hammer curls, it’s like you’d be curling an iron. The beauty of this is that 1) it results in some forearm balancing/control 2) the leverage increases the load higher up the curl arc.
Hi Justin,
All good ideas. I’m still experimenting with kettle bells, but so far I really like how they can increase the range of motion / difficulty on some traditional exercises.
BP
Hi Brad,
Check out the Triple Crush:
http://www.artofstrength.com/Videos/MinuteofStrength2007Videos/KBSquatTripleCrush/tabid/488/Default.aspx
also here:
http://punchgymlv.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/triple-crush/
Can also be done with a section of rope: http://punchgymlv.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/triceps/
I can’t recommend this because I don’t think it’d work for everybody but…
I got a wild hair up my rear to increase weight in all arm exercises, at the expense of form. It was an experiment. For the biceps, it was a waste of time. For the triceps, it resulted in impressive new growth.
Cheating doing biceps curls takes a load off, even if you heave higher weight. Laying down doing triceps extensions with a cambered bar with heavier weight, in looser form, seemed to devastate the triceps.
By cheating, I mean lowering the bar behind your head instead of the way you see guys typically do it, which is the bar touching your forehead.
The ‘cheat’ allows much heavier weight that you feel, even if your elbows are moving a bit to allow the weight to be lowered to the floor.
Of course, our sample size was a friend, my dad, and myself. But it worked in all 3 of us.