Beginner exercise

Tricep Press Machine

Also called Machine Triceps Pushdown

  • Muscle Growth
  • Bodybuilding

Technique

How to perform Tricep Press Machine

  1. Sit securely in a dip machine, select the weight and firmly grasp the handles.
  2. Now keep your elbows in at your sides in order to place emphasis on the triceps.
  3. The elbows should be bent at a 90 degree angle.
  4. As you contract the triceps, extend your arms downwards as you exhale.
  5. At the bottom of the movement, focus on keeping a little bend in your arms to keep tension on the triceps muscle.
  6. Now slowly let your arms come back up to the starting position as you inhale.
  7. Repeat for the prescribed repetitions.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Triceps Lateral Head, Triceps Long Head, Triceps Medial Head.

MuscleScoreRole
Triceps Lateral Head1.0Target, Mover
Triceps Long Head0.9Target, Mover
Triceps Medial Head0.9Target, Mover
Anterior Deltoid0.5Mover, Stabilizer