The Best—and Worst—Exercises for Tricep Gains, According to a Trainer originally appeared on Men's Fitness.

For those who haven’t given their triceps the TLC they deserve for weeks (or even worse, months ), Exercise Scientist, Dr. Mike Israetel, is here to get you back on track with his five top tricep ...

Sometimes you've got to trash your triceps (in the best way) to stimulate new levels of growth in your arms. In order to do so, you need to incorporate the best triceps exercises in your next arm ...

The cable push-down isolates your triceps, so it’s often called a tricep push-down. With this exercise, you’ll hit all the long, medial, and lateral heads of your triceps muscle.

The triceps push-down exercise also includes shoulders with elbow extension/flexion, which makes this exercise even better, giving you more benefits. Sets and Reps Suggestion: 3 sets 10-15 reps 3.

A 2023 study found that overhead tricep extensions produce greater hypertrophy (size changes) in the triceps than pushdowns. Interestingly, the increase wasn’t just in the long head, but in all ...

This week’s exercise focuses on the muscles in the back of the upper arm. The workout is excerpted from “Men’s Health Best: The 15 Best Exercises” (Rodale, $9.95).

So what happens when you use a traditional cable pushdown bar is we're forcing our arms to extend in this parallel fashion, or if we were to let the elbows flare out, ... Exercise 2: Triceps Dips.

Try these PT-approved tricep exercises for stronger arms, using your bodyweight and dumbbells, including tricep dips, tricep kickbacks and tricep extensions.

No matter how many reps of pushdowns and skullcrushers they knock out during workouts, however, ... How to Add the Dumbbell Lying Triceps Extension to Your Workout.