Best Tricep mass builders

[NaKiD EyE]

LOL...you don't build 21" arms with kickbacks!

You can build mass if you do the right ones. Maybe the guy I quoted and I were talking about different variations. Mine is bent over facing the cable with an easy bar attached. Place the cable between your legs with the bar at the back of your knees. Yes, you are using both triceps at once just like a tricep extension. Then perform the kickback movement. Feels and looks weird but extremely effective.

Kickbacks are a great exercise if you do them right. Explain how a movement that targets all 3 heads of the tricep is ineffective? Plus this exercise allows for a lot higher weights to be used than traditional kickbacks.

 

[Kenny Croxdale]

You can build mass if you do the right ones. Maybe the guy I quoted and I were talking about different variations. Mine is bent over facing the cable with an easy bar attached. Place the cable between your legs with the bar at the back of your knees. Yes, you are using both triceps at once just like a tricep extension. Then perform the kickback movement. Feels and looks weird but extremely effective.

Kickbacks are a great exercise if you do them right. Explain how a movement that targets all 3 heads of the tricep is ineffective? Plus this exercise allows for a lot higher weights to be used than traditional kickbacks.

I can't quite visualize the movement you are talking about.

Kickbacks

As Lam stated, Kickback are a poor tricep movement.

"Explain how a movement that targets all 3 heads of the tricep is ineffective?"

All tricep movements involve all three heads. So, this pont is moot point.

Long Head

The Long Head of the Triceps is where the bulk of this muscle lies.

Primarily, overhead movement such as a French Press work the Long Head are the most effective.

While the French Press places the load on the Long Head, the Medial and Lateral Head are worked, as well.

Muscle Meets Magnet

This book is based on EMG studies that show exacty which part of the tricep (other muscles) are worked in each particular exercise.

While Kickback work the Long Head, they are not the most effective movements for doing that.

Kenny Croxdale

 

[bjg]

before mentioning a routine : to hit the triceps ( or any muscle) you have to use the right technique in lifting, the right temp or speed of lifting ( i usually vary the tempo) , the right amount of reps in a set, good form, rest between sets ( i rest 30 secs to 90 secs max) etc...
when it comes to routine , i believe variation is also a good way to go. one of my routines for triceps (on the days when i am concentrating on triceps)
1- 4 sets close grip bench ( best done on a declined bench for me) superset with triceps pull down.
2- 2 or 3 sets skull crushers, or 2-3 sets of triceps dip machine
3- 2 sets reverse pull downs
4- 2 sets of rope pull downs


then stretching

 

[LAM]

You can build mass if you do the right ones. Maybe the guy I quoted and I were talking about different variations. Mine is bent over facing the cable with an easy bar attached. Place the cable between your legs with the bar at the back of your knees. Yes, you are using both triceps at once just like a tricep extension. Then perform the kickback movement. Feels and looks weird but extremely effective.

Kickbacks are a great exercise if you do them right. Explain how a movement that targets all 3 heads of the tricep is ineffective? Plus this exercise allows for a lot higher weights to be used than traditional kickbacks.

the kickback is a isolation exercise as it only involves muscles across one joint. for mass building isolation exercises will always be inferior to compound exercises that utilize muscles across 2 joints. you simply can not constantly increase the working load at anywhere near the same rate with an isolation exercise. which is why they will always be inferior for building power and/or muscle.

it's akin to saying that a leg extension can be just as effective as a back squat which is laughable. can they play a part in a routine sure, but never as a primary exercise. how an exercise "feels" is meaningless in terms of Kinesiology/bio-mechanics.

 

[hypo_glycemic]

I'm doing a lot of kick backs in rehab.. I tore my tricep BRACHII 3 weeks ago doing behind the neck DB..

 

[LAM]

I'm doing a lot of kick backs in rehab.. I tore my tricep BRACHII 3 weeks ago doing behind the neck DB..

that sucks big time. how long did they say it was going to take to heal?

 

[Gissurjon]

You can build mass if you do the right ones. Maybe the guy I quoted and I were talking about different variations. Mine is bent over facing the cable with an easy bar attached. Place the cable between your legs with the bar at the back of your knees. Yes, you are using both triceps at once just like a tricep extension. Then perform the kickback movement. Feels and looks weird but extremely effective.

Kickbacks are a great exercise if you do them right. Explain how a movement that targets all 3 heads of the tricep is ineffective? Plus this exercise allows for a lot higher weights to be used than traditional kickbacks.

Why do people say stuff like this, how in the world could you possibly target only 1 or 2 muscles in a muscle group that controls the same movement?