Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Weekly Muscle Building Workouts, About Arms and Triceps

By Ricardo d Argence

Like any other body parts arms are made of muscles. Triceps are closely related with the movement of arms. As the name implies, triceps are comprised with three main muscles. It gives an individual the ability to lift heavy loads of the strong and big triceps. Characteristic of great and powerful arms also having well-developed triceps is a known. 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.

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.

Advanced triceps exercises are usually designed to improve the mass and stretch of the upper and lower triceps. For mass, heavy weights such as the close-grip barbell bench and weighted dips may be used. For building upper triceps, doing dips and cable pressdown exercises will be helpful. 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.

For getting good result for triceps building you should start while you are fresh. By supersetting triceps exercises, one can have an Olympia-quality arm. Usually, it is harder to build bigger triceps. It is the key to achieving well-proportioned body building results, as according to the priorty principle of body building, targeting first the-hard-to-workout muscles.

Diet, nutrition and rest are of equal importance to doing the exercises when it comes to strengthening the triceps. One must maintain proper nourishment to have the energy to go on with the demanding exercises. Exercise and nutrition is like science and fitness working together in achieving ideal results. Remember, a decent weight training routine is one that combines equal attention to the exercise, well-balanced diet and sufficient rest in producing long-term gains. - 16732

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