Triceps Exercises section is entirely devoted to exercises for triceps muscles. There are many exercises to train the triceps, but all they have a particular feature that must not be neglected: the position of the palm of the hand. Many people are unaware that palm position is very important when you want to exercise the arm muscles. Particularly in exercises for triceps, the hand position directs the workload onto a specific area of the triceps muscle. Here are the main positions used for effective triceps training exercises:
1) Performing triceps exercise with cables (e.g. Lat Machine) with the hands in the supine position (thumbs outwards). In that case the outer triceps muscle (lateral head muscle) is the most stressed.
2) Performing dumbbells exercise for triceps (e.g. French Press with one dumbbell) with the hands in the neutral position (hammer grip). In that case both the inside and outside triceps muscles (lateral head and medial head muscles) are training.
3) Barbell exercises for triceps (e.g. French Press with barbell) with the hands in the prone position (thumbs towards body). Here the internal triceps muscle (medial head muscle) is the most stressed.
For the reasons above, we suggest you include exercises of various kinds into your triceps workout.
