Close grip bench presses

[Primary Captain]

Great for bulking the triceps.

[Royalty]

Gotta keep the elbows in as you press

[FermiDirac]

To be fair, he's in a bulking phase. He still got plenty of time to cut down until Christmas.

[funk51]

Great for bulking the triceps.

my favorite tris exercise.

[Coach is Back!]

[Nails]

always found them to be shit

[Lustral]

my favorite tris exercise.

Talking about favourite triceps exercises around me is like talking about favourite walks around a quadriplegic. Insensitive asshole.

[tommywishbone]

Agree 100%. Excellent exercise.

[Shockwave]

I ALWAYS had trouble hitting tris effectively, i switched to all cable movements as Chiro Flex had suggested once, and ive seen a big improvement.

[Leatherneck]

Sometimes when I do these I feel it in the triceps all the way. Other days not at all.

[The True Adonis]

always found them to be shit

[Nick Danger]

I used to love reverse grip bench for tris, it doesn't seem to work for me anymore...

[Big Chiro Flex]

I ALWAYS had trouble hitting tris effectively, i switched to all cable movements as Chiro Flex had suggested once, and ive seen a big improvement.

I think about you frequently in my day to day life as well no homo

[Griffith]

I use a straight bar at a slight decline.

Easy on the shoulders and works chest and triceps at same time.

Learned this exercise when I had a shoulder injury as the shoulders take very little strain from this angle.

[T-REX007]

Close grip swiss bar presses are the cats rear end- middle grip to inside grip
Dips gotta be king though
Close grips are def a staple exercise, gotta be in the top 3 or so of best exercises when supersetted , also depends on what your goals are - thicker arms,jack up yourbench press... then rep ranges, rest intervals etc.. will determine to some degree their effectiveness

[Donny]

my favorite tris exercise.

i prefer a straight bar and i don´t hold my hands so close as in the picture.

[Shockwave]

I think about you frequently in my day to day life as well no homo

Feelings mutual stud.

Oh, FYI, i got your PM, but never had a chance to respond properly. Thats some heavy stuff man. Im glad you got to experience something like that, that completely alters your perspective on life.

It brings everything back to reality.

[_aj_]

Almost any "good" tricep exercise is a challenge when your shoulders are acting up. I only recently have been able to reincorporate dips and close-grips back into the workout at moderate weights and not getting too aggressive with the ROM.

Of course, it would have to be triceps that get the worst of it. Lustral and I have a competition for the most insignificant triceps  

[Donny]

some use a parallel grip with a Tri Bar or 2 Dumbbells with the same parallel grip. might be better for you -aj- ?

[Thin Lizzy]

Close grips can be hard on the wrists. Scott isn't using the curl bar, for nothing.

For machines, I like rope push downs as they allow you to turn your palms outward at the end of the movement and get a strong contraction. Skull crushers using dumbbells allow this as well but you don't have tension at the end of the movement.

I've found Seated barbell extensions to be the most effective exercise for developing the fibers near the elbow, but for that same reason, they can be hard on the elbows.

[_aj_]

some use a parallel grip with a Tri Bar or 2 Dumbbells with the same parallel grip. might be better for you -aj- ?

That's a good-lookin' Swiss bar for sure. LOL, just what I need: another specialty bar. So far, BB close-grips have been OK, but I have to take a false-grip and actually hold the bar diagonally across my palms. It's a little dangerous, so I have safety bars set up at just below chest level.

Oddly, the things that bother my triceps the most are long-head work; where the arms are effectively overhead. Skull crushers can be agonizing. Dips seem to be OK as long as I don't go too deep.

[T-REX007]

I did kettlebell triceps extensions my last arm day, it was a different type of movement with the hands positioned the way they were, I hurt for a couple days after, pretty good feeling... not saying kettlebells are anything special ( as was said in the kettlebell thread a little while back ) but it was a good change from the close grips, dips, pushdowns variations, went high rep drop sets with about 60 sec breaks between cluster sets- did 3 sets of 3 "drops" for 15 -20 reps each time, so had 9 total sets of high reps in about 3-4 mins, long head of the tricep was smoked

If you need to change your tricep workout up,give it a try, you will be pleasantly surprised, finished it off with 3 x20 rope pushdowns, 45 sec breaks between sets

[Henda]

Great exercise, J.M presses are a good also both on free bar and also great in an angled smith