Triceps grew more with overhead than with arms-down extensions
Key finding
Triceps grew more with overhead than with arms-down extensions
Context
21 adults trained one arm overhead and the other arms-down on a cable for 12 weeks, measured by MRI.
- 28.5 %: Long head — overhead
- 19.6 %: Long head — arms down
- 14.6 %: Lateral and medial heads — overhead
- 10.5 %: Lateral and medial heads — arms down
- 19.9 %: Whole triceps — overhead
- 13.9 %: Whole triceps — arms down
Limits
Small sample; training status is not stated in the abstract. Only cable elbow extensions were tested.
Sources
- Triceps Brachii Hypertrophy Is Substantially Greater after Elbow Extension Training Performed in the Overhead versus Neutral Arm Position · Maeo; Sumiaki; Wu; Yuhang; Huang; Meng; Sakurai; Hikaru; Kusagawa; Yuki; Sugiyama; Takashi; Kanehisa; Hiroaki; Isaka; Tadao · 2023 · European Journal of Sport Science PubMed DOI Study note
Guides
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