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Triceps Exercises

Build stronger, more defined triceps with these proven exercises

312exercises found

Archer Push Up

Advanced
Pectorals

The archer push up is a hard exercise using your own body weight. It strengthens your chest, arms, shoulders, and tummy muscles. To do it, you perform a push-up while reaching one arm straight out to the side. This makes the bending arm work much harder and requires good balance and strength.

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Assisted Chest Dip (kneeling)

Beginner
Pectorals

This exercise works your chest muscles using a machine that helps lift your weight. You kneel on a pad that pushes you upward, which makes the movement easier. It is great for learning the exercise or getting stronger if you cannot do a regular dip yet.

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Band Close-grip Push-up

Intermediate
Triceps

This is a type of push-up that uses a stretchy band to make the move harder. You keep your hands close together to focus on your arm muscles, called the triceps. The band adds extra force to the exercise, making your muscles work more.

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Band Front Raise

Beginner
Delts

This exercise works the muscles in your shoulders. You stand on a stretchy band and lift your arms straight out in front of you until they are as high as your shoulders, then lower them. It makes your shoulders stronger and also helps your arms and upper back.

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Band Shoulder Press

Beginner
Delts

This is a strength exercise for your shoulder muscles that uses a stretchy band for resistance. It also works the back of your arms and your upper back. You simply push the band up over your head starting from your shoulders. This is a basic exercise to build strength in your upper body.

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Band Side Triceps Extension

Beginner
Triceps

This exercise uses a resistance band to strengthen the triceps, which are the muscles on the back of your arms. It also works your shoulders a little bit. To do it, you hold your arms out wide to the sides, bend your elbows to bring your hands in toward your shoulders, and then push your arms back out straight.

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Band Twisting Overhead Press

Intermediate
Delts

This is a shoulder exercise that helps your muscles grow strong. It mixes pushing up with turning your upper body. It uses your arm and back muscles. It also makes your tummy muscles work hard to keep you balanced.

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Band Wrist Curl

Beginner
Forearms

This exercise helps make your forearm muscles stronger using a resistance band. You sit down, rest your lower arms on your legs, and curl your wrists upward.

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Barbell Bent Arm Pullover

Intermediate
Lats

The barbell bent arm pullover is a strength exercise that works your back muscles, triceps, and chest. You lie on a bench and lower a barbell behind your head in a controlled arc, then lift it back up.

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Barbell Decline Bent Arm Pullover

Intermediate
Lats

The barbell decline bent arm pullover is a strength exercise done on a slanted bench. It mainly works your back muscles (lats) but also helps your chest and triceps. You need strong control to safely lower and lift the bar over your head while keeping good form.

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Barbell Decline Close Grip To Skull Press

Intermediate
Triceps

This exercise strengthens the triceps, which are the muscles on the back of your arms. You perform it on a bench where your head is lower than your feet. By holding the bar with your hands close together, it mixes two types of arm movements to build strength and balance.

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Barbell Decline Wide-grip Press

Intermediate
Pectorals

This is a chest exercise done on a bench that slopes downward. You use a barbell and hold it with your hands far apart. It focuses on the bottom part of your chest muscles and also works your shoulders and the back of your arms.

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Barbell Front Raise

Beginner
Delts

The barbell front raise works your shoulder muscles. You do this by holding a bar in front of your legs and lifting it straight up to your shoulders.

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Barbell Front Raise And Pullover

Intermediate
Pectorals

This exercise works your chest, shoulders, and the back of your arms. It involves lifting a barbell up in front of you and then moving it behind your head. You need strength and good control to do it correctly.

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Barbell Guillotine Bench Press

Advanced
Pectorals

This exercise is very similar to a standard bench press, but you lower the bar to your neck instead of your chest. This small change makes the upper part of your chest muscles work harder. Because the bar comes close to your neck, you must use perfect control to stay safe.

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Barbell Incline Bench Press

Intermediate
Pectorals

The barbell incline bench press is a strong upper-body workout. It mainly builds the upper chest muscles, while also working the shoulders and the back of the arms. You do this exercise on a slanted bench with a long weighted bar to make your chest bigger and stronger.

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Barbell Incline Close Grip Bench Press

Intermediate
Triceps

This exercise is a great way to strengthen your upper body. It focuses mainly on the triceps (the back of your arms) but also works your chest and shoulders. You do it lying on a slanted bench. You hold the bar with your hands close together, which makes your triceps work harder than usual.

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Barbell Incline Reverse-grip Press

Intermediate
Triceps

This exercise works your triceps, chest, and shoulders. You do it lying on a slanted bench while holding the barbell with your palms facing you.

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Barbell Jm Bench Press

Advanced
Triceps

The barbell JM bench press is a special arm exercise that works your triceps. It mixes a close-grip bench press with a triceps extension. To do it, you lie on a bench, bring the bar down toward your neck with your elbows tucked in, and then push it back up.

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Barbell Lying Back Of The Head Tricep Extension

Intermediate
Triceps

This is a triceps muscle exercise done while lying on a bench. You lower a barbell behind your head and then lift it back up to work the back of your arms.

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Barbell Lying Extension

Intermediate
Triceps

This strength exercise helps build your triceps muscles. It is often called a skullcrusher. To do it, you lie on a bench and lower a barbell to your forehead by bending your elbows. Then, you push your arms straight back up.

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Barbell Lying Triceps Extension Skull Crusher

Intermediate
Triceps

The barbell lying triceps extension, or skull crusher, is a workout for the back of your arms. You lie on a bench and lower a barbell to your forehead, then lift it back up. You must move carefully to stay safe.

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Barbell One Arm Floor Press

Intermediate
Triceps

This one-arm exercise works your triceps, chest, and shoulders. You lie on the floor and push a barbell with just one hand. Because you must balance the long bar, it makes your core work hard to keep you steady.

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Barbell Seated Behind Head Military Press

Advanced
Delts

This is an exercise for your shoulder muscles, arms, and upper back. You need to be flexible and use safe form to prevent injury.

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Barbell Seated Bradford Rocky Press

Intermediate
Delts

The barbell seated Bradford Rocky press is a seated exercise that builds shoulder muscles. It involves pushing a barbell up over your head to work the deltoids. It also uses the triceps and upper back. You need flexible shoulders, a strong core, and pressing power to do it well.

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Barbell Seated Close Grip Behind Neck Triceps Extension

Intermediate
Triceps

This is an arm exercise for your triceps and shoulders. You sit on a bench and hold a barbell behind your neck with your hands close together. Then, you push your arms straight up.

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Barbell Seated Overhead Triceps Extension

Intermediate
Triceps

This exercise works your triceps muscles. You sit down and straighten your arms over your head while holding a barbell. It also uses your shoulders as secondary muscles.

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Barbell Skier

Intermediate
Delts

The barbell skier is an active shoulder exercise. You hold a barbell and do a small jump while lifting the bar up. This move works your shoulder muscles and uses your arm and tummy muscles to help you stay steady.

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Barbell Standing Bradford Press

Intermediate
Delts

The Barbell Standing Bradford Press is a standing exercise that makes your shoulders, upper back, and arm muscles stronger. You push a weighted bar from your shoulders straight up over your head. You need good strength and steady movement to do this well.

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Barbell Standing Front Raise Over Head

Intermediate
Delts

This shoulder workout focuses on your deltoids while also helping your triceps and upper back. It involves standing up and lifting a weighted bar from your legs to a position above your head, which requires strong shoulders and steady movement.

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Barbell Standing Wide Military Press

Intermediate
Delts

This exercise works the shoulder muscles. It also uses the muscles in your arms and upper back. To do it, you stand up and push a barbell over your head from your shoulders, holding the bar with your hands widely apart.

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Barbell Wide Bench Press

Intermediate
Pectorals

This exercise builds strength in your chest muscles. It also works your shoulders and the backs of your arms. You need a barbell and a bench to do it. You hold the bar with your hands far apart, lower it to your chest, and push it back up.

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Barbell Wide Reverse Grip Bench Press

Advanced
Pectorals

This exercise strengthens your chest muscles, as well as your arms and shoulders. To do it, you lie on a bench and push a barbell up while holding it with your palms facing towards you.

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Behind Head Chest Stretch

Beginner
Pectorals

This flexibility exercise helps loosen tight chest muscles. You do it by standing up straight, putting your hands together behind your head, and gently pulling your shoulder blades toward each other to open up your chest.

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Bench Dip (knees Bent)

Beginner
Triceps

This is a bodyweight exercise that you do using a chair or bench. It mainly strengthens the back of your arms, known as the triceps. It also helps work your chest and shoulder muscles to build upper body strength.

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Bench Dip On Floor

Beginner
Triceps

This is a simple exercise you can do using just your body and a sturdy seat. It strengthens the muscles in the back of your arms. You hold yourself up on the edge of a bench or chair and lower your hips down and up.

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Body-up

Beginner
Triceps

The body-up is a bodyweight exercise that strengthens your arm muscles, specifically the triceps. It also works your chest and shoulders. You keep your feet on the floor and use your arms to lower and lift your straight body, just like a dip.

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Cable Alternate Triceps Extension

Intermediate
Triceps

This exercise uses a cable machine to work the triceps muscles on the back of your arms. You straighten one arm at a time while keeping your upper arm completely still, switching back and forth between your right and left sides.

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Cable Concentration Extension (on Knee)

Beginner
Triceps

This exercise is used to strengthen the triceps, the muscles on the back of your arm. You sit down for this movement and rest your elbow against the inside of your knee. This helps keep your upper arm perfectly still so the triceps do all the work.

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Cable Decline Fly

Intermediate
Pectorals

The cable decline fly creates a workout for the lower part of your chest. You use a cable machine with the handles set high to pull downwards. This movement stretches and squeezes your chest muscles by moving your arms in a smooth, controlled way.

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Cable Decline One Arm Press

Intermediate
Pectorals

This is a chest exercise using a cable machine. It focuses on the lower part of the chest but also works the shoulders and triceps. Because you use only one arm on a slanted bench, you must stay balanced and controlled.

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Cable Front Raise

Beginner
Delts

This workout builds strong front shoulder muscles. You hold a cable handle and lift it straight out in front of you until it reaches shoulder height. You must move smoothly and control the weight the whole time.

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Cable High Pulley Overhead Tricep Extension

Intermediate
Triceps

This exercise uses a cable machine to isolate and strengthen the triceps at the back of your upper arm. By pulling the cable over your head while keeping your elbows still, you focus specifically on building arm muscle.

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Cable Incline Bench Press

Intermediate
Pectorals

This chest workout is done on a slanted bench using cable handles. It focuses on the upper chest muscles but also works the shoulders and the back of the arms. The cables create steady tension the whole time, which is great for building strength and muscle in the upper chest.

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Cable Incline Pushdown

Intermediate
Lats

The cable incline pushdown is a focused exercise for the back muscles (lats). It uses a cable machine with a straight bar. You must move slowly and with good posture to work your back muscles well. The triceps and shoulders also help with the movement.

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Cable Incline Triceps Extension

Intermediate
Triceps

This exercise works the triceps muscles on the back of your arms using a cable machine. You stand with your back to the machine and push your arms up over your head to strengthen the muscle.

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Cable Kneeling Triceps Extension

Intermediate
Triceps

This exercise works the triceps muscles on the back of your arms using a cable machine. You kneel on the floor in front of a high pulley and straighten your arms to target the muscle.

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Cable Lateral Raise

Intermediate
Delts

This exercise works the side muscles of your shoulder. You use a cable machine that pulls on your muscles the whole time you move. This helps make your shoulders look wider and stronger.

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Cable Lying Extension Pullover (with Rope Attachment)

Intermediate
Lats

This exercise works your back muscles, which are called the lats. You do it by lying on a bench and using a cable machine with a rope. You need to move slowly and carefully to make your muscles work well and keep your shoulders safe.

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Cable Lying Fly

Intermediate
Pectorals

This exercise works your chest muscles. You lie on a bench and use a cable machine. It also uses your shoulders and arms a little bit. You lower your arms wide to the sides and then bring them back together to squeeze your chest.

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