Sunday, December 28, 2008

Weekly Muscle Building Workouts, About Arms and Triceps

By Ricardo d Argence

Our arms are composed of a number of different types of muscles. Among these muscle types, it is the triceps that are always used with arm movements. As the name implies, triceps are comprised with three main muscles. 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.

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.

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.

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.

At the gym, the exercises for toning triceps start at the rope pull down machines. The effect of machine exercise and dumb bell is almost same in triceps building. Again, proper posture and pace is a must while exercising for body building. Exercises are all for quality of movements and not the number of reps.

The mass and stretch of the upper and lower triceps advanced triceps exercises are usually designed to improve. For mass, heavy weights such as the close-grip barbell bench and weighted dips may be used. Cable pressdown is one of the important exercise in building 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. - 16004

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