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When my tricep tendon recovers I'd like to work on my Triceps.

Any ideas apart from press-ups?

Cheers

In reply to The Lemming:

I didn't know I had any!

In reply to The Lemming: From my vague memories of gyms it is with a Triceps pulldown machine OR if with free weights, put your arm above your head, elbow pointing upwards and hand down between your shoulders with dumbell, keeping upper arm rigid (support from other hand) raise lower arm and dumbell pivoting from elbow (hope this makes sense

In reply to The Lemming:

Free weights on the ends of bars.....whathe heck they called? Anyway, lift the bar up and over the back of your head, keeping your elbows facing straight away from your chest; don't let them splay out.
Lift the bar above your head them back behind your neck.
Repeat as many times as you can.
Your triceps will be a girl magnet in no time.

dunno if you'll climb any better, but.....
http://www.stockphototalk.com/photos/uncategorized/jonathanasboywithtoad.jp...

In reply to The Lemming: Tricep dips are killers!

In reply to The Lemming:

Narrow press ups, dips, tricep pull downs.

Try google too.

In reply to The Lemming: Grab a heavy dumbell. Hold in both hands (hands around the end, holding the weight) put it behind your head, and lift. Repeat until tired.

In reply to cider nut:



Much more fun to ask advice than trawl through endless hits that may or may not be helpful.

Cheers

In reply to The Lemming:

Nah, you want some mass-builders. Forget these high-rep 'shaping' exercises. Big compound movements work best. Bodyweight exercises.

Try mantelling (dips) over a bannister rail (or any rail) where you're controlling your centre of gravity. Aim for 8-10 reps.

HD.

In reply to hugedyno:

I just want to strengthen my triceps as simply as possible please.

And if I can acheve this without any equipmentthen all the better please.

Cheers

In reply to The Lemming:

Without equipment, your best bet would probably be doing press-ups with your hands close together (pref, touching). Once you can do 10 or more, elevate your feet on a chair or something - to make it a bit harder.

Or - buy a cheap set of 20kg dumbells (<£20 in Decathlon and similar stores). Use these to do overhead tricep extensions, tricep kick-backs and lying single-arm "french presses".

Depends how serious you are about buidling strength. If you're serious buy some dumbells as IMHO with the correct use of equipment you'll build strenght faster

In reply to The Lemming:

to get the significant parts of tricep do each of these

kickbacks and tricep press

In reply to The Lemming:

Bench pushes - sit on a bench with your arms pressing on the seat, slide your ass off the bench and lower to the ground...now push up again and repeat.

In reply to Mike Hartley:

That's a dip...

In reply to The Lemming:

One-armed press-ups. If you can't do one keep trying until you can. Seriously!

If you can do a normal press-up with your palms close together and your feet up on a chair/table then you'll be able to do one with one-arm if you push hard, it's more a mental thing, keep trying until your body realises that it can.

In reply to The Lemming:

No equipment? Simple?

Go bouldering and do lots of rockovers on really steep ground.

Hey presto, triceps appear where there were previously only skinny arms.

It's working for me!

In reply to The Lemming: get some push-up bars from argos for about £6 and use them lots when you're feeling a bit stronger get on the dips. some gyms have a machine with dip bars that have a counterweight system which can help to start but get on the full bodyweight dips once your guns are big enough. and go all the way down and all the way up. good work out for your tris

In reply to The Lemming:

Winter climbing

In reply to The Lemming:
Tricep kickbacks, french curls.

In reply to The Lemming: try some of these chap

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/ExList/ArmWt.html

In reply to The Lemming:

1) Place 2 chairs firmly against a wall, slightly wider than shoulders
2) Assume a 'press-up' position with hands on the inner edges of the chairs, body straight out behind, insteps of feet on the floor, wide leg stance for stability.
3) Put one arm behind your back and do a deep one arm press-up, dipping the opposing shoulder low between the chairs (this'll work the abs and lats for core stability).
4) Immediately swap hands doing alternates to failure.

Disclaimer: I could do loads of standard 'one-arm' push ups before I invented this, so DON'T try it until one-armers feel easy. Otherwise you'll blow a deltoid.


HD.

In reply to JackTurner:

Ah! That's the link I was looking for and couldn't find in my utterly confusing favourites list.

They also have a picture of a body (warning, naked!), which you can click on to find the relevant exercises, quite handy (but don't do it when your boss is around):
http://www.exrx.net/Lists/WtMale.html

In reply to The Lemming: try tossing yourself! i find it really helps , you need to be able to do LOOOONNNNNGGG strokes though, so YOU may struggle

In reply to cider nut:


Now that is an exceptionally helpful link.

Cheers

In reply to The Lemming: press ups are easy, so do them with a narrower hand possition for around 4 sets of 8-12 reps. if thats too easy, slow down the movement, pause at the bottom for a second or two and and slowly push back up and sqeeze the used muscles to maximise muscle contraction. do tricep dips on a stirdy chair or a desk, these also are very easy therfore do them slowly and emphisize the 'sqeeze' when your arms straighten, 3or4 sets of 8-12 reps again. traditional dips are better and harder though, as you lower your whole weight and your chest and deltoids come into the frame aswell. if you have dumbells, such things as tricep extensions, push downs, and close grip bench presses are the most effective. forget tricep kickbacks! stick to compounds exercises.

In reply to The Lemming:

Something I am trying at the moment is I have used a bit of plastic piping to make a handle which I have hung off a pull-up bar. With one hand on the pull-up bar and the other on the much lower handle I press down on the lower hand and pull with the other until locked off and either do another rep or slap for the ceiling !. Then swap hands for another set. It replicates a bachar ladder type movement.

In reply to The Lemming:
Okay, two chairs about 3 feet apart (or however long your legs are). Ankles on one chair, and grip the second chair behind your back with both hands.

And, dip.

Repeat.

In reply to MttSnr:

Feet up on chair and press ups with hands on floor. Feel the difference. Remember to hold yourself in at the stomach. Great for core strength too.