Most new bodybuilders use a split routine in the gym – chest and biceps. That’s it! Over time, as they learn about the importance of full body development, other body parts begin coming into play. Triceps are often overlooked during early training, as most new bodybuilders just consider the arm muscle to be the biceps. However, as we pick up steam and triceps receive more attention, we look for ways to better maximize our triceps training. Here are a few tips for doing so. Warm up – minimally It’s important to use a few sets of light triceps pressdowns to help draw some blood into the upper arms to prepare for the workout at hand – but it’s also important not to go overboard and end up losing some triceps structural integrity by spending 15 minutes stretching and ...

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In today’s world of synthol and esciline, many bodybuilding fans have sat and had a chuckle at the sight of a professional bodybuilder with ridiculously oversized upper arms, and extremely skinny forearms. It’s a classic and painfully obvious sign that the bodybuilder has used site injections, since it’s virtually impossible to gain size on the biceps without gaining size on the forearms. After all, the forearms grip the weight used in curls and do handle the same weight that the biceps are required to curl. Most professional bodybuilders are blessed with decent forearm development, or it arrived pretty quickly when they trained to achieve pro caliber biceps. However, in the amateur ranks (where good genetics aren’t a given as they are in the pro ranks) it’s not uncommon to see bodybuilders with sub-par forearm development. Many see ...

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