Tried a range of different tri exercises, most effective one for me is tricep pull downs with a rope. Feels like the most isolation I've got, and the best gains in strength/size.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:49 pm
by wub
Weighted bench dips, overhead tricep extensions ss w/ underhand tricep pull downs, single arm tricep kick backs (don't know the correct term)
also this funky new one where you get a bench, lie below the tricep push down station and with an ez bar do a sort of reverse tricep extension until tension. Bit hard to describe, will look for a picture in a bit.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:52 pm
by Molzie
wub wrote:Weighted bench dips, overhead tricep extensions ss w/ underhand tricep pull downs, single arm tricep kick backs (don't know the correct term)
also this funky new one where you get a bench, lie below the tricep push down station and with an ez bar do a sort of reverse tricep extension until tension. Bit hard to describe, will look for a picture in a bit.
Like skullcrushers but with cables?
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:57 pm
by Laszlo
Molzie wrote:
Laszlo wrote:I've seen people do that thing in the video and I just think "why? You're taking up a bench for no reason".
Is it really that different?
over head is a completely different movement. Also, I can't do the weight standing.
Fair enough. The people I saw doing it were pretty hench so I knew there must be a something to it, I just couldn't work it out
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:10 pm
by wub
Molzie wrote:
wub wrote:Weighted bench dips, overhead tricep extensions ss w/ underhand tricep pull downs, single arm tricep kick backs (don't know the correct term)
also this funky new one where you get a bench, lie below the tricep push down station and with an ez bar do a sort of reverse tricep extension until tension. Bit hard to describe, will look for a picture in a bit.
Like skullcrushers but with cables?
Yes, so you're pulling down rather than pushing up as you would with skull crushers.
Also, skull crushers.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:19 pm
by Molzie
I'm confused. So you're lying on a bench with your head at the cable end and instead of extending upwards you're pushing out parallel to your body?
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:53 pm
by wub
Molzie wrote:I'm confused. So you're lying on a bench with your head at the cable end and instead of extending upwards you're pushing out parallel to your body?
Lying on a bench. Ez bar attachment on a cable. Hold with straight arms out above you. Then sort of curl the ez bar back behind your head.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:21 am
by Genevieve
It was time to up the calories. Upped them by 250 calories now and will check my progress in a week. Cuz I definitely stalled on massgains (though not on strength gains).
Dope.
Also doing my first ever front squat today.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:56 pm
by Molzie
good luck! start slow, keep those hips in and push through the heels.
My body is packing in. It seems I've now got an abdominal strain from playing squash ffs
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 7:10 pm
by Genevieve
Thanks! Ddidn't go too well. Don't think I have the deltoids or chest yet to do them properly, or my arms are just too short. One of those things. The barbell kept relling off, meh.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 7:17 pm
by Molzie
What grip were you using? Crossed or straight arm?
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 7:26 pm
by Genevieve
I tried both, but the bar keps rolling off. When it was in a position where I felt like it would stay, it was crushing my collarbones. I'll take pain if I have to, but this just seemed like a little much.
I may give them another try next time. But yeah, any way I tried them, something seemed to hurt badly.
I even tried this:
Edit: my elbows were probably not high enough..
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:05 am
by wub
Extra 5kg on my bench for reps, new PB
Feel like a fois gras goose though, so far intake today has been;
I've got to do back today but I feel wrecked after a shitty nights sleep.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:14 am
by Genevieve
OD on caffeine yo.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:19 am
by Laszlo
On it.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:32 am
by Genevieve
Atta boiiii!
I haven't missed a single day so far. Damn proud of myself.
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:38 am
by Laszlo
Neither have I!
(only about to finish the third week)
Re: Working Out....
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:41 am
by wub
Laszlo wrote:Well done, mate!
I've got to do back today but I feel wrecked after a shitty nights sleep.
Thanks man
Also bought myself some digital scales yesterday, so can do proper weighing. As of this morning, am up to 190lbs so not in fact losing weight as I thought