Triceps exercises

The triceps responds to two kinds of work: extensions with the arm by the side (pushdowns, kickbacks) and extensions with the arm overhead, which stretch the long head more. Having both in a week covers the whole muscle.

Like the biceps, the triceps takes sets from every press in the week — bench, overhead, dips. The direct work at the end of a session is there to reach the target, not to do all the work.

80 exercises in the catalogue, across 11 types of equipment. In a new week, the default target for this group is 4 sets.

How the volume counts

Each set counts in full for the exercise’s primary muscle and for the secondary one where there is one. A set of bench press counts for chest and for triceps — the same rule the app’s weekly volume panel and the public calculator use, and the reason a muscle’s total can exceed the number of sets you actually performed.

By equipment

The names are the catalogue’s own, in English, exactly as the app shows them.

Cables (19)

  • Bar Pushdown
  • Bar Reverse Grip Pushdown
  • Bar Rolling Pushdown
  • Bar Skullcrusher
  • Bent Over Single Arm Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Cross Pushdown
  • Leaning Single Arm Skullover
  • Overhead Tricep Press
  • Rope Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Rope Pushdown
  • Rope Rolling Pushdown
  • Rope Skullcrusher
  • Single Arm Cross Pushdown
  • Single Arm Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Single Arm Pushdown
  • Single Arm Rolling Pushdown
  • Single Arm Rope Pushdown
  • Single Arm Skullcrusher
  • Tricep Kickback

Dumbbells (18)

  • Bench Braced Single Arm Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Decline Skullcrusher
  • Floor Press
  • High Incline Skullover
  • Incline Skullcrusher
  • Incline Skullover
  • Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Rolling Tricep Extension
  • Seated Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Single Arm Incline Skullcrusher
  • Single Arm Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Single Arm Seated Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Single Arm Skullcrusher
  • Single Arm Tricep Guilotine Press
  • Skullcrusher
  • Tate Press
  • Tricep Guillotine Press
  • Tricep Kickback

Band (9)

  • Floor Press
  • Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Pushdown
  • Rapunzel Pushdown
  • Single Arm Pushdown
  • Single Arm Rapunzel Pushdown
  • Single Arm Skullcrusher
  • Skullcrusher
  • Tricep Kickback

Barbell (8)

  • Close Grip Bench Press
  • Floor Press
  • J M Press
  • Landmine Lying Tricep Extension
  • Laying Triceps Extensions
  • Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Skullcrusher
  • Tricep Guillotine Press

Kettlebells (8)

  • Decline Skull Crusher
  • Floor Press
  • Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Single Arm Floor Press
  • Single Arm Tricep Guilotine Press
  • Skull Crusher
  • Standing Tricep Extension
  • Tate Press

Bodyweight (6)

  • Bench Dips
  • Box Assisted Dips
  • Diamond Push Ups
  • Knee Tricep Extension
  • Ring Skullcrusher
  • Tricep Extension

Plate (4)

  • Curl To Overhead Press To Tricep Extension
  • Overhead Press To Tricep Extension
  • Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Weighted Diamond Push Ups

Machine (3)

  • Cable V Bar Push Downs
  • Overhead Tricep Extension
  • Tricep Pushdown

Smith-Machine (3)

  • Bodyweight Skullcrusher
  • Close Grip Bench Press
  • Skullcrusher

TRX (1)

  • Skullcrusher

Vitruvian (1)

  • Bench Press

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