Heavy CGs or Floor Presses will build triceps no worries. Just stop trying to "feel it".
Find me a big bencher with small tris. They don't exist.
have you ever tried cross bench dips?
Like this but you can use benches instead of chairs. You can add resistance by putting weight plates on your lap.
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I'm personally not convinced it really uses the triceps more then wide/normal grip bench.
Whenever I fail a wide grip bench its always the lockout/top half of the lift, which is the triceps. In that case I should bench less with a close grip correct? Well I always bench equal and often more with the close grip. So i'm not sure it does really use the triceps more.
have you ever tried cross bench dips?
Like this but you can use benches instead of chairs. You can add resistance by putting weight plates on your lap.
[YOUTUBE]jvaFV64V7y8[/YOUTUBE]
Shoulder killers.Its almost a biomechanical certainty that you're using more tris with a CG bench. What may be happening is that you're just not activating the tris effectively in WG. Try replicating the movement that the tris are going through. In a WG bench your tris extend more away from the boy rather than towards your feet so use tri movements that replicate that. Tate Presses, WG pin or board presses. Focus on spreading the hands apart.
Don't recommend. Shoulder killers.
Shoulder killers.
Wacchu talking about?
Never killed my shoulders.
Rams....
There's a post on here with a you tube clip of Mark rippetoe teaching skull crushers...
Can't find it to save my life... Been hunting on youtube several times now to try and find it... Fingers crossed someone else out there can point out where it is....
Eitherway... He calls it the 4th power lift....
Traditional skull crushers go to the forehead... However this is only a partial movement for the tricep.... The full movement requires the bar to be dropped behind your head for full activation of all of the tricep heads....
The way Mark does it is a real gnarly compound movement... I tried it and noticed immediate soreness in areas of my tricep that I had not felt before.... I reckon you could achieve a real heavy weight on this excecise...
I stopped using it cause I felt like it was adversly affecting my bench and shoulder press. (Doing Starting strength 3x5)
If your going the starting strength route... Mark uses this excercise on the basis that you can progressively load it like the rest of his excercises....
Will see if I can find the footage....
u wont find it under skull crusher, coz its a lying tricep extension lolRams....
There's a post on here with a you tube clip of Mark rippetoe teaching skull crushers...
Can't find it to save my life... Been hunting on youtube several times now to try and find it... Fingers crossed someone else out there can point out where it is....
Eitherway... He calls it the 4th power lift....
Traditional skull crushers go to the forehead... However this is only a partial movement for the tricep.... The full movement requires the bar to be dropped behind your head for full activation of all of the tricep heads....
The way Mark does it is a real gnarly compound movement... I tried it and noticed immediate soreness in areas of my tricep that I had not felt before.... I reckon you could achieve a real heavy weight on this excecise...
I stopped using it cause I felt like it was adversly affecting my bench and shoulder press. (Doing Starting strength 3x5)
If your going the starting strength route... Mark uses this excercise on the basis that you can progressively load it like the rest of his excercises....
Will see if I can find the footage....
Ok, but I can only comment on my experience which is no shoulder problems with this exercise.Gave mine lots of grief and I've heard the same from lots of other people to. Its a dangerous position for your shoulder and even riskier when you start loading it.
Ok, but I can only comment on my experience which is no shoulder problems with this exercise.
also i couldnt find it on youtube, but heres a link
Starting Strength
also i couldnt find it on youtube, but heres a link
Starting Strength
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