How To Do Overhead Triceps Presses With Free Weights Video

Overhead triceps press is a great exercise to build strengthen in the back of the arm. Learn how to do the overhead triceps press with this exercise video from a fitness instructor.

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Start in kickstand stance
Hold dumbbell on outside
Bring over head
Elbows out to peripheral vision
Bring weight forward
Release
10 to 15 reps
3 sets

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Carol Childers has been a physical fitness trainer for twenty three years. She is experienced in yoga, pilates, sports conditioning, core strength training and nutrition. She currently works with clients all over the country.

Overhead tricep press is a great exercise to defy the gravity that takes its toll in the back of the arm in that three-headed muscle. If you take a dumbbell, you can put it on each end. 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 cannot really fire towards its belly and I can't really turn that tricep muscle in the way I want to. I do prefer this one in a kickstand formation with your weight 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 the 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 the 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 keeping the elbows staying where they start just like in an extension of one arm. On the side, they're stabilizer here as well and release. We wanted to choose a weight that fatigues 10 to 15 reps in three sets.

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