Thread: Lagging body parts

Now I've heard that to bring lagging body parts up, add some isolation movements for that muscle.
I'll use my triceps as an example, which are lagging and so wanna know how to bring em up.

If my chest is much stronger than my triceps, that means that when I do my heavy benching, my triceps are really being pushed to the limit to help support that weight that my chest is pushing.

If thats the case, then the triceps are already being worked more than they usually would.

And if that's the case, then they're nearly being overtrained just doing standard chest and shoulder exercises.

And if that is also the case, then adding an iso movement is surely overtraining them and leading to the opposite in what you're trying to get by adding the iso movement. Do you get me?

So would It be wise to bring up the triceps on a different day to your chest and shoulder workout rather than add an iso on the same day? Like I'm doing a sat/mon/wed split with ab work on thursday or friday with some sprints and stuff. I do chest, tri's & shoulders on sat(push day), so would it be wise doing tricep work on the tuesday so as not to impair the saturday push workout.
And if I should do that, isn't it overtraining them still because they're getting hit hard enough to wait a week on the saturday?

Just curious

Originally Posted by T_man

I infact have a close grip and have been told by many that my grip is too narrow even though it's the most comfortable for me.
I would have thought this would bring up the triceps, but, actually, it doesnt for me.
Would pre-exhastion of the triceps be wise?? although it will impair my pressing

Maybe its more than just a close grip that they are advising against.
make sure you keep your elbows tucked in (hope that makes sense)

Secondly... you dont want to cross over into overtraining your triceps. This will cause the inverse effect that you desire.

go about 1:20 into this vid

remember his shoulders are wide as hell so pay attention to the width of his grip relative to the width of himself. when he gets to full extension it looks like this: (____) (brackets represent his arms) - rather than this \____/ (the slashes represent what your amrs probably look like at full extension)

IMO your size is going to come when your are lifting HEAVY and compounds are much heavier weight than isolations. you will see more progress from compounds than from isolations im sure of it!!