How to Do Overhead Triceps Extensions

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Kyle Brayer and your next in-home tricep workout will be the overhead tricep extension. This is performed from a seated position. Karie's chosen a kitchen chair here. She's got her back nice straight up and down. If this back rest was a little bit closer to keep her in that neutral position she could use the back rest. She's got her feet flat on the ground, whatever's comfortable -they can be shoulder-width apart or closer, whatever she feels comfortable with. She's going to take...we've picked a 5 lb. medicine ball, she's going to take that up and over her head. This is her starting position. She's going to lock her elbows next to her ears, and then from her elbows to her shoulders will be immobilized. She's going to try not to move those and she's just going to let from her elbow to her wrist move as the weight comes down behind her head and then it comes back up. So that's the positive portion. As she comes down she's inhaling through the negative, and as she exhales through the hard portion, that's her positive portion. She's really going to feel that in here, in the triceps. So down and back up. And again, like our other exercises, you want to pick a weight you can start out with about 15 repetitions and then as you design your training program you can adjust your weight from there. She exhales on the way up and inhales on the way down, and exhales on the way up. Then she'll go ahead and bring that weight down in front of her body, safely, and bring it down. That is the overhead tricep extension. "