Thanks for the replies guys! I was gonna try it today after work, but girlfriend had a suuuuper suuuper shitty and emotional day so I came home and cooked dinner and loved on’er. I’ll try it out tomorrow!
It actually felt liberating to consciously choose not to go to the gym. Normally I only go when I “can’t”. She very much appreciated it as well. Still got cardio in 
I agree about Different, not better. But if you’ve been doing the same thing for awhile, sometimes a different move feels better for awhile.
Pushdowns “Blowing up the Dynamite” like that are cool, I get nice tension down by my elbows, like low on my triceps. I like to think about pinching my elbows together in front of me instead of extending my arms out. You can use a bunch of weight that way and if the dual pulley cables are taken you can jump on the lat pulldown setup and do your tris there instead.
It can be a little tricky to find the proper way to stand and how much to lean into the move. If you’re not careful it’s easy to use too much chest and shoulders instead of tris. And figuring out which side of the cable to put your face on takes a couple sets. So maybe try these on a day when you have a few extra minutes to feel things out vs some time when you’re in a rush.
If that shit hurts, here’s a version that’s easier on wrists and elbows.
Thanks man! I’ll Definitely check those out! Trying to find something my triceps like that will make them grow. It seems a lot of the normal movements I have trouble doing.
Where you line up your wrists and shoulders makes a big difference for triceps. I know your wrists are all banged up, if you’re holding them a little crooked it can be painful on the elbows.
Seriously, seriously break off $25 and get a Jumpstretch “miniband” and a “monster mini band.” Try all your different crazy pushdowns and extensions with one of those. There is still a little pain, but it’s just a 2 or 3 so you can keep going for 30-50 reps. As the set goes on you make little adjustments and figure out how to do the motion pain free. And the high high reps rehab your gnarly tendons.
Then you’ll be fixed up and ready to go.
I do regular push downs pain free, and I do have bands at home so that’s good.
It’s the stuff that everybody says builds mass I have trouble with. Pull over things, like behind the head stuff with different bars and the like.
I can do the dumbbell behind the head stuff but irk if because of my wrist mobility or I’m just stupid, but I swear my tricep isn’t working when I try them. I know it’s impossible for it not to though. I just think I’m doing something wrong with them.
Benching just hurts my shoulders and collar bones.
I’m starting to see some growth in my biceps, and good growth to the horseshoe shaped head of the tricep, but the part on the back of my arm close to my elbows is literally bone and skin. There’s nothing. And idk how to fix it.
If your shit is jacked up it’s easy for tricep extensions and especially behind the head tricep moves to turn into shoulder presses, so it’s totally possible that you’re not getting a ton of triceps. I know that moves are supposed to “work” and hit the correct muscles automatically, but it doesn’t always work that way.
Sometimes you need to spend a little time figuring out the move/muscle. In the heat of battle that’s no fun, you just want to crush your sets and go on. Some time at home anchor one of those bands at knee or waist height behind you, get your arms up overhead and walk forward a step or two until you find the right spot/angle for tricep tension. From there you’ll need to figure out how to hold your shoulders back so they’re not trying to take over. I like to think about my elbows going out to the side then pinching back in and together to keep pressure on tris instead of pushing “up” and using too much shoulder.
Thanks for the insight man. I just want them meaty arms!!
That little lump on the side of your arm is cool, but for the Big Guns we need that big hunk of meat on the back!
This spring when things were shut down I did lots of partial pushups, stopping 3, 4.5 or 6 inches off the floor and going slowly. This really helped me learn how to keep tension on my triceps and push with my arms and not my shoulders. I pretty much followed what Matt said, the shorter the ROM the slower you go and the longer you pause, only instead of board pressing I just did pushups.
I don’t know if this will help any, but this little video talks about shoulder position and keeping your shoulders back so they don’t roll forward and crush your collarbones.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJkFwqahBx5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
This dude shows 4 different grips/hand positions to use for band triceps.
I guess you didn’t ask about any of this, but I got a lot out of this stuff. And honestly, now that I think about it, and after all that, Regular ass pushdowns with an Underhand grip may still be the easiest way to hit some long head triceps.
Dude thanks for taking the time to make that post!! I’ll watch those videos today and figure something out and give some stuff a whirl!!! Thank you!!!
thanks for the tag and I have done a similar version of those with a T-Bar attachment. I loved it that way but it was hard on the wrists and at the end of the day that risk reward wasnt worth it. this looks like it would fix that issue. So yea try it and see if you like it better. Also Meadows is BBing Confucious.
I’m definitely a meadows fanboy. I used to have about 8 of his paid programs but lost them 
. Always wanted to have a gym capable of running one. It’s probably the only “real” workout I’d want to do.
Great back and tricep workout today.
Before I left work to head to the gym I walked into the break room to find oatmeal! So me and the other meathead (who’s actually huge and competes) ate some oatmeal together and talked about gym stuff.
It was the good shit too! Sugar and all
Really killed my back today. Felt amazing! Triceps were also good. I’m liking the new chest press machine for my triceps. It’s a seated chest press that doesn’t curve inward like a hammer strength machine. I sit kinda sideways and do one arm at a time trying to make sure it’s all triceps and no chest. Just doing sets to failure using 80lbs.
Tried the meadows style push downs. Owww lol
Gonna go back over all the good information I got in here recently and do some thinking.
Good shoulders chest and bicep workout!
Felt strong on DB OHP!
Did some cable flys for the titties for the first time in a while. Always a great pump!
Went on call an hour ago, weather looks bleak. Hoping we get a lot of overtime as I need it!
What did you hit on the ohp?
Nothing impressive lol. My “rule” has always been anything past 10 reps, the weight goes up next workout. I got stuck on 75lb dumbbells a month or so ago so I swapped to BB OHP, wasted a few weeks on that and decided my shoulders didn’t like me when I did that. I think this was my second shoulder workout back with DB’s. Just been using the 70’s, but going a lot slower.
First set was like 70’s x 13 or something, the rest idk, just focused on pretending like I was gonna be shot if I didn’t go past failure with them and then complete the rep I failed on
I don’t think I’ve ever officially moved my working weight past 75’s. But I’m trying
My rule is if I miss 10+ twice I drop back down 2 levels so it would be back to 65s in this case…so you dont have to do Barbell OHP which messes up my shoulders too.
Yea I think I stagnated at like 9 reps with 75’s. Doing down twice probably would have been a better idea. My current train of thought it keep pushing the reps with 70’s and let the second and third set dictate my movement now. Normally I’d do two sets to failure, then drop 5-10 pounds depending on how it felt and do 2 more sets to failure, just to keep the reps up. Now I’m sticking with the 70’s past my usual first 2 working sets.
Wow, that will get some growth. Having said that your AMRAPs might benefit from a de-volume workout put in between that one every once in a while. 4 AMRAPs is a ton of AMRAPing. Something like working up to a set of 5 with your next top AMRAP weight and thats it. Then next workout do you 4 AMRAPs.
Your reps with the 75s might benefit from a de-volume workout. Like 1 workout just work up to the 75s for 5 and thats it. Next workout
Yea maybe 
I usually don’t go backwards and food and drugs have been good lol
I probably need to experiment with different styles of training. I’ve always been give it all you got and then some every workout. I’ve never not taken a set to failure. Ever lol
This does sound interesting though