Free Weight Triceps Presses

Video Transcript

"Overhead tricep press is a great exercise to defy the gravity that takes its toll on the back of the arm and that 3 headed muscle. If you take a dumbbell you can put it on each end and if I'm here I compromise the line of my joints. As you can see right there, my wrists don't line up with my elbow so therefore the muscle can't really fire towards its belly and I can't really turn that tricep muscle on the way I want to. I do prefer this one in a kickstand formation with your weights slightly forward but engaged in the core, supporting the back, don't let the neck sway back. Elbows out to your peripheral vision, they are stabilizers so they have to stay where you start. The more active range of motion you have will determine your starting point with this but you don't want to have impingement on your shoulder joint. Inhale, and then we contract slightly forward, slight bend in the elbows never locking out that joint and release, inhale and exhale and keep the elbows staying where they start just like in an extension of one arm, on the side they are stabilizer here as well and we want to choose a weight that fatigues, 10 to 15 reps in 3 sets."