Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Muscle Building Workouts: How to Get Huge Triceps

By Ricardo d Argence

There are composed of a number of different types of muscles of our arms. Of these kinds of muscles, triceps are the ones employed when moving the arms. As the name implies, triceps are comprised with three main muscles. Heavy work load uplift is helped by triceps. Well developed triceps are most important characteristic of powerfull 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.

Strengthening your triceps will make your arms stronger, in addition to developing a more aesthetic appearance. This is because the muscle takes 2/3 of the entire length of your arm. To end up having well rounded and proportionally developed arms and you also need to work out your biceps to end.

Dumbell exercises are most effective in triceps building. Before doing any of these, remember to have a proper warm up. Which minimizes the chance of injuries to warming up is crucial to ensuring great exercise results, it basically prepares the body to the physical demands of doing certain exercise.

The easiest and most effective triceps toning exercise is the basic push up. Using dumbbells for load or increased body resistance helps in intensifying any form of triceps exercise. Hold it in both hands and position it at the back of the head but to tone the muscle, you can replace the rope pull down machine with a dumbbell. Maintaining good posture and feeling triceps flex is goodone.

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.

Improved exercises are done for strengthening of uppr and lower triceps. For mass, heavy weights such as the close-grip barbell bench and weighted dips may be used. Dips and cable pressdown exercises can be useful for someone who wants to strengthen his upper triceps. For building lower triceps, weighted dips and dips was found to be effective, intensify the exercise by only going 3/4 of the way up force to fully concentrate on the lower triceps.

When building up triceps, better result are usually achieved when a person train while he is fresh. By supersetting triceps exercises, one can have an Olympia-quality arm. Usually, it is harder to build bigger triceps. According to the priority principle of body building, targeting first the-hard-to-workout muscles is the key to achieving well-proportioned body building results.

Triceps strengthening also depends on eating a proper diet, receiving the proper nutrition and getting an adequate amount of rest. Diet is very important in exercise in order to go on with the demanding exercises. Exercise and nutrition is like science and fitness working together in achieving ideal results. To achieve long-term gains in weight training, you need an equal balance of exercise, rest and a well-balanced diet. - 16003

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