Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Weekly Muscle Building Workouts, About Arms and 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.

Aside from strength and aesthetics, strengthening your triceps is essential in generally making the arms stronger. This is because the muscle takes 2/3 of the entire length of your arm. You also need to work out your biceps to end up having well rounded and proportionally developed arms.

Dumbbell exercises, rope pull downs and push ups are some exerxises your triceps work out must include. Before doing any of these, remember to have a proper warm up. Warming up is necessary before going for tough exercises.

Doing simple push up is the classic triceps exercise, it is the simplest and most effective in toning up the muscle. Using dumbbells for load or increased body resistance helps in intensifying any form of triceps exercise. But to tone the muscle, you can replace the rope pull down machine with a dumbbell, hold it in both hands and position it at the back of the head. Maintain a position and gently pull the dumbbell up and down and feel the triceps flex.

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.

The combination of diet , nutrition and resting is vital in triceps exercise. In order to have the stamina required of strenous excercise, you must eat properly. Exercise and nutrition is like science and fitness working together in achieving ideal results. Keep in mind a proper weight training routine is one which utilizes a combination of exercise, a proper diet, and adequate rest, in order to achieve long-term goals. - 15995

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