How to Do Resisted Triceps Exercises

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Kyle Brayer, and your next in-home tricep workout will be the resisted tricep press. This needs to be performed with a partner or someone at home. So Karie's going to turn around and she's going to take this 3 lb. medicine ball. You can pick any weight you want because the resistance is actually going to come from your partner. She'll go overhead, just as she did in our seated tricep press. She's going to lock her elbows next to her ears and she'll actually drop the weight down. Now my job is to add resistance, so I'm going to hold the weight and just let her pull it enough where she can actually get the ball moving, but not much faster than that. So right now I'm adding a lot of resistance. It's not very hard for me, but as you can see she's shaking and as she pulls the weight up I let her bring it down nice and slow. This is her recovery period, and then I add resistance on the way up, once again. Now, of course, if you don't want your partner to hate you, you actually have to let them move the ball, so if I were to add too much resistance it would be very difficult for her, she'd fatigue too early and she could possibly hurt her shoulders, so I'm adding resistance, but as you can see just with a couple of fingers it's enough to slow her down and make her shake. So up and then back down. As she gets completely fatigued on her triceps, I'm actually going to let her perform a few with just the weight of the medicine ball, and now that she's fatigued it'll feel like a lot more weight. Thank you, Karie. So this is the resisted tricep press. "