A triceps exercise using a cable machine with arms extended overhead, emphasizing the long head of the triceps. The cable keeps the long head loaded through its full stretched range, including the bottom position where dumbbells go light. For pure long-head stimulus per set, this is arguably the best triceps exercise in the library.
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A triceps exercise holding a dumbbell overhead with both hands, emphasizing the long head through a deep stretch. Using both hands on one dumbbell allows more total load than the single-arm version, making it the mass-building member of the overhead extension family. It slots in after pressing as the primary stretch-position triceps builder in a […]
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Aug
A unilateral overhead pressing exercise that targets the deltoids and triceps while challenging core stability with an offset load. Pressing one dumbbell makes the obliques fight the sideways pull the whole set, so the trunk gets trained as hard as the shoulder. It also isolates each side’s pressing strength, revealing gaps a two-dumbbell press hides.
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Aug
Aug
A unilateral triceps exercise using a cable behind you, extending one arm overhead for long head emphasis. The overhead position stretches the long head of the triceps, the biggest of the three, and the cable keeps tension on it through the whole range in a way free weights cannot. Working one arm at a time […]
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Aug
Aug
An isolation exercise targeting the triceps, particularly the long head, by extending a dumbbell overhead with one arm. The overhead position puts the long head under a stretch it never gets from pushdowns, and single-arm work lets you spot and fix a weaker side directly. It needs nothing but one dumbbell, which makes it the […]
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Aug
Aug
A triceps isolation exercise using a V-bar attachment for a neutral grip that targets the lateral and medial triceps heads. The rigid bar lets you push more weight than a rope, while the angled grip keeps the wrists comfortable doing it. It is the strength-leaning member of the pushdown family, best placed early in an […]