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Tricep - Outer Head !!

one last post from me since i am serious on this topic.

otherwise this shit is getting ridiculous. ill even apologize for calling anyone little, except for p funk.

my research? in the gym. i workout in san diego, california. i workout at the 24 hour fitness gyms. ive spent lots of time working out at the point loma, pacific beach, rancho san diego, mision valley, balboa, and even the gay ass hillcrest location. ive seen a lot of people come and go, and also those faces that stick around for years.

in my first few years of working out, i noticed everyone and their momma did pressdowns for triceps and pretty much only press downs. i would see guys use a straight bar then a rope then a one handled reverse cable motion. and guess what. no one seemed to have the tricep long head development. lateral head yes, nothing in the long head department. the few guys who had these big ass horseshoes that i was after, didnt seem to do all the pressdowns. and upon me starting to ask these guys who had acheived what i wanted to achive, i started learning what exercises a lot of them had in common.
and it wasnt press downs.

so, armed with my idea that when you make the muscle longer, (you are pushing the insertion point farther away from the origin point as you raise your arm in regards to long head of the tricep only) it can contract a little bit harder, taxing the muscle fibers even more.

so i never did press downs. it was skulls and overhead dumbell presses.

end result: i train triceps totally differently than most people, and my triceps ended up looking totally different than most poeple. i specifically tried to emphasize the long head, and it worked.
you can say i just happen to have good tricep long head genetics, but i dont buy it.

so thats my opinion, one i sweated through, go ahead and keep yelling 'Science!' at me, but i dont care. how many studies have you personally done? none.
were you there to witness all these studies you keep reffering to? didnt think so.

what im trying to say, is yes, i have read all this stuff that says muscles fire one way, on or off. i have read a lot of other stuff too. i took what i knew and applied it with my own ideas as well. this is my experience. you trying to tell me it didnt happen?

so where is your experience. not a study you read, what did YOU do that worked. show me what you did. show me the results. that is the kind of info im here for. i can read books all day. i have another anatomy course at school this quarter. i dont need you to tell me muscle action and insertions. i like to hear the variations people put on things that seem to work for them. i dont always agree with it, but dam. you mother lovers are on the attack here something serious.



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ill even apologize for calling anyone little, except for p funk.

why wont you apologize to me?
 
I think this thread may qualify, as the longest of all time. So I can't resist getting in on it.

The triceps muscle must have a reason in having three heads, of course one being flexibility. But if you hold your arm straight out, and rotate your hand counter clockwise thumb pointing toward the floor; you will notice the triceps contracts. This proves that hand position has an a effect on this muscle. So being that is the case, it then must be possible to strike different parts of this muscle group. By using different exercises, and hand positions.

As far as science goes. The lowly Bumble Bee cannot fly, it is not aerodynamically possible.:bulb: BUT! somebody forgot to tell the bee. They can hover, fly sideways, and backward, something few flying creatures can do. So it seems they do pretty good, for a bee that absolutely is not supposed to fly. So science stands red faced on this one, who knows how many other things science fails to prove??. :)
 
largepkg said:
Hey P, AKA:lil guy <--- :lol:

I only have one thing to say. You're a riot! :thumb:

Don't know if that is bad or good? LOL.

I am not even really arguing with anyone. More just making a statment.
 
Sam40 said:
I think this thread may qualify, as the longest of all time. So I can't resist getting in on it.

The triceps muscle must have a reason in having three heads, of course one being flexibility. But if you hold your arm straight out, and rotate your hand counter clockwise thumb pointing toward the floor; you will notice the triceps contracts. This proves that hand position has an a effect on this muscle. So being that is the case, it then must be possible to strike different parts of this muscle group. By using different exercises, and hand positions.

As far as science goes. The lowly Bumble Bee cannot fly, it is not aerodynamically possible.:bulb: BUT! somebody forgot to tell the bee. They can hover, fly sideways, and backward, something few flying creatures can do. So it seems they do pretty good, for a bee that absolutely is not supposed to fly. So science stands red faced on this one, who knows how many other things science fails to prove??. :)
This is the best post on this thread..... :clapping:
Love the bee analogy......shows what science is capable of. :)
 
for yanick and cowbell the workout masters of all, here are some more threads you better go trumpet your cause in:

http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/showthread.php?t=39833

http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/showthread.php?t=31563

or is it just tricep envy that is the cause of all these attacks on my superior methods?

:p

gopro seems to agree with me, but since he doesnt know anything nearly as much as you two expert experts i guess i should discount his years of training knowledge and application.

did someone say owned somewhere?
 
I still don't get it?? Are they arguing with you about the long head or the outer head? If you raise your arms up you will be working the long head as it is placed in its greatests strech. Similiar to if you do a preacher curl and shorten the long head of the bicep you will use less of it. While performing a incline DB curl that stretches that head will activate it to a greater extent.
 
P-funk said:
I still don't get it?? Are they arguing with you about the long head or the outer head? If you raise your arms up you will be working the long head as it is placed in its greatests strech. Similiar to if you do a preacher curl and shorten the long head of the bicep you will use less of it. While performing a incline DB curl that stretches that head will activate it to a greater extent.
well p, if anyone cared they could go back and read my original statement and see that is pretty much what i said.

lol.
 
Thanks Curse. I honestly just wanted a bit more information on what you meant by tested a hypothesis of yours. I didn't mean it as an attack. In the end, I don't totally disagree with you. I think we ended up arguing about 10 different, but interrelated, things here, and a slightly different variation of each one.

The original poster asked about "specifically targetting" the outer head, which I took to mean as isolate. I said that couldn't happen, and I still stand by it. Not to mention I believe the outer head means the lateral head. The lateral head is on the outside of the body in an anatomically relaxed position (Palms up, arms down to the side).

Now, I understand that you can get a greater stretch of the long head during overhead extensions, but the other heads still contract, and I don't think you can hypertrophy the long head at the expense of the other two heads. That is, all the heads are going to grow if you do elbow extension movements. Their rate of growth is dictated by genetics. That is my opinion. I'm owning that statement so Foreman can relax.

I appreciate your apology too. I felt I was civil during this discussion, but pardon me if I wasn't.
 
CowPimp said:
Thanks Curse. I honestly just wanted a bit more information on what you meant by tested a hypothesis of yours. I didn't mean it as an attack. In the end, I don't totally disagree with you. I think we ended up arguing about 10 different, but interrelated, things here, and a slightly different variation of each one.

The original poster asked about "specifically targetting" the outer head, which I took to mean as isolate. I said that couldn't happen, and I still stand by it. Not to mention I believe the outer head means the lateral head. The lateral head is on the outside of the body in an anatomically relaxed position (Palms up, arms down to the side).

Now, I understand that you can get a greater stretch of the long head during overhead extensions, but the other heads still contract, and I don't think you can hypertrophy the long head at the expense of the other two heads. That is, all the heads are going to grow if you do elbow extension movements. Their rate of growth is dictated by genetics. That is my opinion. I'm owning that statement so Foreman can relax.

I appreciate your apology too. I felt I was civil during this discussion, but pardon me if I wasn't.
owned!!! :laugh:
 
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i seem to keep repeating myself over and over. ive put this information out in several other threads and a few dozen PM's.

i never said isolate, i said slightly shift the workload, i think the word i used was emphasize.

look at P funks description of bicep heads being shortened and thus contracting less. sure they all still contract, but in some postitions one head my be called upon more than in other postions.

the actual numbers here, who knows. is it a 1% workload shift? 10%? more?
of course i dont know, never said i did. i just shared my successful training experience and why i think it was successful.
 
buildingup said:

dude jump off their cocks, you're like a little fuckin baby and its annoying when we're doing big people stuff.

TheCurse said:
otherwise this shit is getting ridiculous. ill even apologize for calling anyone little, except for p funk

thank you for that, although i didn't take offense, but that was kind of you. i'll apologize for any pot shots i might have taken at you and at Foremanrules, in the end the discussion was great and hopefully any noobs reading this will learn something.

i still however stand by my position, so we can all agree to disagree.

oh yeah, p-funk is a bitch so don't worry about apologizing to him
 
Yanick said:
oh yeah, p-funk is a bitch so don't worry about apologizing to him


fuck you.
 
I agree with P-funk 100%

Fuck you!


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TheCurse said:
i seem to keep repeating myself over and over. ive put this information out in several other threads and a few dozen PM's.

i never said isolate, i said slightly shift the workload, i think the word i used was emphasize.

look at P funks description of bicep heads being shortened and thus contracting less. sure they all still contract, but in some postitions one head my be called upon more than in other postions.

the actual numbers here, who knows. is it a 1% workload shift? 10%? more?
of course i dont know, never said i did. i just shared my successful training experience and why i think it was successful.

Yeah, that's how it always happens. There are too many people presenting too many opinions and too many posts to catch up on. People go off on tangents, talk past each other, etc. Either way, some good information was illicited from both parties during the discussion. That's the whole idea.
 
P-funk said:
fuck you.

i know you say that with all the love in your heart :D
 
Yanick said:
i know you say that with all the love in your heart :D
shut up spamdick, you lost the argument go fuck yourself! nobody likes you now fuck off!!!!
 
I just love watching these arguments. Pretty damn funny.

Anyway, while we are on the topic. There are 3 heads of the triceps yes? First off, Ive only seen two spoken about here..what about the other? And what is it called again?

Also, I guess I am just confused, but I just dont know which part the outer head is. Is this the part of your tricep that you can see by looking down at your arm? Or is it on the back where youd have to see it with a mirror?

Also, hah! The triceps is a horshoe shape as we all know, but I ve always wondered, what the fuck is in the center of it? What muscle is there?
 
AKIRA said:
I just love watching these arguments. Pretty damn funny.

Anyway, while we are on the topic. There are 3 heads of the triceps yes? First off, Ive only seen two spoken about here..what about the other? And what is it called again?

Also, I guess I am just confused, but I just dont know which part the outer head is. Is this the part of your tricep that you can see by looking down at your arm? Or is it on the back where youd have to see it with a mirror?

Also, hah! The triceps is a horshoe shape as we all know, but I ve always wondered, what the fuck is in the center of it? What muscle is there?

please dont stir it up :eek: :eek: ... look how much trouble has been caused on just the long head.... and and now you want to bring 2 more into the debate!!..... :hot:
 
You cant isolate tricep heads :laugh: :laugh:
 
AKIRA said:
I just love watching these arguments. Pretty damn funny.

Anyway, while we are on the topic. There are 3 heads of the triceps yes? First off, Ive only seen two spoken about here..what about the other? And what is it called again?

There's the long head, the medial head, and the lateral head.


Also, I guess I am just confused, but I just dont know which part the outer head is. Is this the part of your tricep that you can see by looking down at your arm? Or is it on the back where youd have to see it with a mirror?

I was assuming that the outer head is the lateral head, but I don't really know which head he was referring to. The reason I say this is because in the anatomically relaxed position you have your arms at your sides with your palms facing up. The lateral head is facing away from your body in this position.


Also, hah! The triceps is a horshoe shape as we all know, but I ve always wondered, what the fuck is in the center of it? What muscle is there?

I don't think any muscles is there...
 
CowPimp said:
I was assuming that the outer head is the lateral head, but I don't really know which head he was referring to. The reason I say this is because in the anatomically relaxed position you have your arms at your sides with your palms facing up. The lateral head is facing away from your body in this position.

Hmm, well if its the muscle facing away the body, then mine is HUGE. I want my front one bigger.

Maybe its genetics?

Anyway, thanks for the accurate and immediate answers.
 
Outer Head!

I've had some lagging lateral head on my triceps too. What I've done is some serious muscle-head scientific research. :-D
Alright. So every grip you use makes the muscle heads contract. BUT, they also make certain muscle heads contract more so than others. So, try using to T-Bar on a push-down cable. Grip it with thumbs close to you, then push down. Just like a normal triceps push down, but with your hands gripping a T-Bar with thumbs close to your body.
It took me a few times until I really started feeling it.. But once you really get the mind-muscle connection with this exercise, it works. My triceps are now very full and symmetrical.
I hope this movement helps you.
 
I've had some lagging lateral head on my triceps too. What I've done is some serious muscle-head scientific research. :-D
Alright. So every grip you use makes the muscle heads contract. BUT, they also make certain muscle heads contract more so than others. So, try using to T-Bar on a push-down cable. Grip it with thumbs close to you, then push down. Just like a normal triceps push down, but with your hands gripping a T-Bar with thumbs close to your body.
It took me a few times until I really started feeling it.. But once you really get the mind-muscle connection with this exercise, it works. My triceps are now very full and symmetrical.
I hope this movement helps you.


LOL i hope you realize this post is 4 years old now
 
I'm tired of hearing genetics.

Else we'd all be the skinny/fat guy we used to be!

And about the exercises, you can definately work certain muscles even though others contract along with it. Take bench press, your triceps contract but your chest takes the bigger load. It's not spread evenely. If you make it close grip, more stress is put on the triceps, and so the triceps grow at a faster rate than chest if you do this exercise only. I know it's not the same muscle but they work together like one muscle just moving different bones.
 
This might work for you.
You know when we normally do the dumbell chest pullover? Sit upright on a bench now and with the same grip(using ur triceps) push the dumbell upwards in some sort of a press. Super set it with tricep push down for tt extra omph.
But still, to each his own. Play and try ard a lil and find one tt suits you best.
 
I'm tired of hearing genetics.

Else we'd all be the skinny/fat guy we used to be!

And about the exercises, you can definately work certain muscles even though others contract along with it. Take bench press, your triceps contract but your chest takes the bigger load. It's not spread evenely. If you make it close grip, more stress is put on the triceps, and so the triceps grow at a faster rate than chest if you do this exercise only. I know it's not the same muscle but they work together like one muscle just moving different bones.

T-man that is not even close to the same thing. Your talking about switching the focus between two muscle groups, they are talking about switching the focus in the same muscle group. Very different.

Still, fucking great thread.
 
:D I know but

when doing compounds the muscle groups work together like the different heads of a single muscle group when doing isolation. changing the manner in which you do it changes the head that gets stressed the most :O

<trying hard to dig himself out of a hole>
 
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