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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Body Building Workouts & Routines, Triceps

By Ricardo d Argence

The triceps which comprise three main muscles, comes into play with all arm movements although there are of course numerous different types of muscle located in the arms.

Strong and big triceps gives an individual the ability to lift heavy loads. Also, having well-developed triceps is a known characteristic of great and powerful arms. That is why so many people are seen doing military presses, bench presses and any other triceps exercises to develop lean and strong triceps.

Aside from strength and aesthetics, strengthening your triceps is essential in generally making the arms stronger. This is because the muscle takes 2/3 of the entire length of your arm. Hence, you cannot develop strong arms without having strong triceps first. But you also need to work out your biceps to end up having well rounded and proportionally developed arms.

Simple triceps work out include push ups, dumbbell exercises and rope pull downs. Before doing any of these, remember to have a proper warm up. Warming up is crucial to ensuring great exercise results. It basically prepares the body to the physical demands of doing certain exercises, which minimizes the chance of injuries.

Doing simple push up is the classic triceps exercise. It is the simplest and most effective in toning up the muscle. Using dumbbells for load or increased body resistance helps in intensifying any form of triceps exercise.

In order to tone the muscles, you can use a dumbbell instead of a rope pull down machine. In order to do this; you simply hold the dumbbell in both hands behind your head, maintaining your position while gently pulling the dumbbell up and down. When you do this exercise you will feel your triceps flexing.

In the gym, triceps toning exercises begin with rope pull down machines. The machine exercises the triceps by allowing you to do similar exercises as those done with the dumb bell. Remember to maintain proper posture in doing these exercises to ensure correct execution. Exercises are all for quality of movements and not the number of reps.

In order to increase the mass and the stretch of the upper and lower triceps, advanced triceps exercises are performed. To increase mass, one can use heavy weights such as the close-grip dumbbell machine and also weighted dips.

Likewise, for developing the upper triceps, one should focus on dips and cable press down exercises. For the lower triceps on the other hand, dips and weighted dips are known to be effective.

One other thing to bear in mind is that when you're aiming to develop your triceps, you stand to achieve the best results if you train at times when your body is still fresh. This is because the triceps are considered to be difficult muscles to develop. According to the "priority principal" of bodybuilding, won should always make a point of targeting those muscles which are the most difficult to develop.

Diet, nutrition and rest are of equal importance to doing the exercises when it comes to strengthening the triceps. One must maintain proper nourishment to have the energy to go on with the demanding exercises. Exercise and nutrition is like science and fitness working together in achieving ideal results.

One of the most important things to remember, is that proper weight training program will not only revolve around exercise, but it will also focus on diet and a suitable amount of rest in order to achieve the best possible long term results. - 17269

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