How to Build Massive Triceps

When people ask me how to build big triceps I respond with two straight forward words; "do dips." Do dips and do plenty of them. Why, you ask? Have you ever seen the triceps development on male gymnasts lately? The dip is essentially the only true triceps move they do and they're absolutely jacked with massive, thick, horseshoe triceps. Anytime you use your bodyweight for resistance or bodyweight plus additional resistance via a chin/dip belt or weight vest, you activate a much greater number of muscle fibers than you would if you simply used a machine. Machines do not recruit the smaller stabilizer muscles and do not force the muscles to contract naturally as they would in real life. Whenever possible you want to try to move your body instead of simply moving the arm or attachment on a machine. And although free weight exercises are very productive and a much better option than training on a machine, moving your own body will always reign supreme when it comes to building muscle.

Dips can be done on parallel bars or, if you are really strong, gymnastics rings. Be sure to squeeze the bars tightly, brace your abs as if you were about to be punched and lower yourself no lower than the point where your triceps are parallel with the ground. Going lower than that puts too much stress on the shoulders and getting the extra stretch is not worth the threat of an injury.

Dips can be performed three times per week as a beginner. After a few months of that I don't think you will be confused about how to build big triceps anymore. When you get more advanced it is advised to cut your dips down to twice per week. Although I used to love weighted dips and routinely had many of my clients perform them with numerous 45 pound plates strapped to their waists I have found, over the years, that there is simply too great a risk of injury with heavy weighted dips and now do not allow anyone in my gym to do dips with more than just one 45 pound plate. Anything beyond that seems to get too risky.

For intermediate lifters you could do one day heavy, where you add resistance to your weight belt, and one day light where you simply rep out with bodyweight. The two days should be about 72 hours apart. Once you get strong enough to do a 45 pound plate you will probably only want to use weighted dips as a rep exercise and not a heavy strength movement anymore.

To make dips more difficult without adding more weight, try doing them on gymnastics rings or on straps. You can also try holding your legs straight out directly in front of you as well. Either option will be very challenging and are terrific muscle builders.

Apart from dips, the next best muscle building exercise for the triceps is a reduced range of motion close grip bench press or some variation of it. The top half of the bench press really focuses the stress on the triceps which is why you want to limit the range when training simply to increase the size of your arms. To do this you can set pins in a power rack or have a partner hold a few two by fours on your chest. These are called board presses. Three, four and five boar presses are awesome for building large triceps and should be incorporated into your routine on a regular basis. When you get too strong to go heavy on dips without risking a shoulder injury, make board presses your heavy triceps movement and dips your light triceps movement. Keep pushing up the weight and reps and pretty soon people will be asking you about how to build big triceps like yours.

Train hard,

Jason Ferruggia

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Become Massive Muscle Men

I wanted to take the time to talk to you about becoming massive muscle men. Muscle isn't quite as easy as most people anticipate when they start out. They assume if they lift some big weights, they'll get ripped. Well, it's sort of true for people starting out. There is a thing called newbie gains that will allow a new person to put on muscle for a month, no matter what they do. After that though, they fall into a plateau and eventually give up. To be successful at this, you need the knowledge to make this work every single day for a year, not just a month. There's more to this than just lifting weights, so if you follow my advice you'll become one of the massive muscle men in society.

Lifting weights is all good and great, but if you're not eating properly than you're just wasting your time in the gym. Muscle fiber requires amino acids to grow and the body gets them from your diet, mainly protein. Muscle grows every single minute of every single day, so you're going to need to have a consistent flow of these nutrients. That's why it is important to start eating smaller meals every few hours.

Massive muscle men in the gym stick to the compound exercises because they're the ones that work. Things like deadlifts, squats and bench press are designed to inflict so much stress on the body that muscles are forced to grow. Don't waste your time on the other exercises you see the majority of people wasting their time with.

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