Good Tricep Builders?

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I added dips to my routine for the first time 2 days ago and some guy that works at the gym came up to me and told me that I can hurt my shoulders with my range of motion (going below 90 degrees).

How far down should I be going on dips?
Also, you can make the bars wider or narrower. I’m guessing wider is more for chest and narrower is more for Tris? Am I right?
Thanks

edit:
Also, what’s the difference between rope pushdowns, bar pushdowns, and reverse grip bar pushdowns?
I’ve never tried reverse grip bar pushdowns, but I’m seeing more people doing them and would like to know more about them.
I can’t do as much weight on the rope pushdowns as on bar pushdowns.

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My main Tri exercises for the past 5 or so years has been some variation of:

Weighted Dips.
Close Smith Banch
Inc/Dec/Flat skull crush
Kickbacks
Seated 2 arm DB French
1 arm pressdown.

I think thats it…

What is the point of this thread? Its real old, was there a question too - or is it just a list for the newbs or something? Not flaming it, just forgot why i am writing this list!

J

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[quote] JJ wrote:
What is the point of this thread? Its real old, was there a question too - or is it just a list for the newbs or something? Not flaming it, just forgot why i am writing this list![/quote]

Eh, seems like a topic that couldn’t hurt to pop up once in a while.

Workout One
A) Rope 1 1/2 pressdown 3x8 (One standard rep plus an extra half rep from midway to peak contraction = one complete rep, perform 8 reps per set)

B) Lying 1-arm dumbbell extension 3x8-12

Workout Two
A) 1-arm cable pressdown 3x8-12

B) Overhead extension 3x6-8 ( http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Triceps/DBTriExt.html )

or

B) Partial overhead press 3x6-8 ( http://www.T-Nation.com/article/bodybuilding/exercise_of_the_week_partial_overhead_press&cr= )

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dips and close grip pushups

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[quote]undeadlift wrote:
Scrotus wrote:
Do tricep extensions with elastic bands and chains.

Hahaha!

Seriously, OP, do weighted dips then drop the weight and do rep out again.[/quote]

Actually, that’s a pretty solid suggestion. Choke a band around a rack or something else, do as many press downs as you can, wait 10-15 seconds, do it again (and again) until you reach 100 total reps.

That’s Dave Tate advice, by the way.
http://asp.elitefts.com/qa/default.asp?qid=4174&tid=101

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I tried the overhead cable/rope Tricep extensions yesterday and they were awesome; I really felt them. I could only do like half of the weight that I would do for pushdowns or something though.

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do weighted bench-dips, between 2 flat benches (feet on one, hands on the other) with a plate or 3 on your quads, do drop sets, then some extentions/ pulldowns and see who the DOMS treats you…
also try a dumbell benchpress with the weights touching, press the DBs together through the whole movement.

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i honestly like tricep pushdowns. but i never do them anymore. i tried dumbell extensions lying down and it was just too unstable and slow for me to really feel it

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[quote]Ratchet wrote:
weighted dips (dip belt and the 2 to 5 range) worked well for me.

just did a plate for the first time yesterday for 3…[/quote]

awesome progress ratchet. i cant wait until i can dip with weight