Hitting the top of the tricep

I do close grip bench's but after training it only feel likes I've hit the area just above my elbow and not worked the top at all. My grip is probably just inside shoulder width and my elbows flare a touch, could this be the cause?

Also is this the best for building triceps?

dips and skull crushers!

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Think I'll switch to skull crushers!

Loads of good options just work thru them as you chop and change.

I like CG, as said, dips and skulls are also good. Pushdowns are fine, tate press, DB rollovers are good. Floor presses, rack lockouts etc

I find with most pressing type triceps moves (dips, CG, skulls...) not to go too deep works best for me. So CG I will not touch the bar on my chest, infact it's a good few inches off doing so.

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As said give skulls a go too.

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James M


I do close grip bench's but after training it only feel likes I've hit the area just above my elbow and not worked the top at all. My grip is probably just inside shoulder width and my elbows flare a touch, could this be the cause?

Also is this the best for building triceps?

What sort of rep range are you using,if your feeling it just around the elbows you may be going to heavy.I don't rate cgbp myself but if your going to do it follow DV's tip of not lowering the bar all the way to the chest,most folks do a fair bit of pressing type movements for chest and delts all of which hit the tris hard so don't see the point in throwing another pressing movement at them not when there is such a big choice of effective tri exercises to choose from.
 
I'm a big fan of cable work for tris,overhead cable extensions highish reps 10-15 followed by a compound movement like weighted dips works well.
 
 

I'm a big fan of cable work for tris,overhead cable extensions highish reps 10-15 followed by a compound movement like weighted dips works well. 

agree with the above 



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I do close grip bench's but after training it only feel likes I've hit the area just above my elbow and not worked the top at all. My grip is probably just inside shoulder width and my elbows flare a touch, could this be the cause?

Also is this the best for building triceps?

What sort of rep range are you using,if your feeling it just around the elbows you may be going to heavy.I don't rate cgbp myself but if your going to do it follow DV's tip of not lowering the bar all the way to the chest,most folks do a fair bit of pressing type movements for chest and delts all of which hit the tris hard so don't see the point in throwing another pressing movement at them not when there is such a big choice of effective tri exercises to choose from.
 
I'm a big fan of cable work for tris,overhead cable extensions highish reps 10-15 followed by a compound movement like weighted dips works well.
 
 

Was doing 5x5 but just switched to 3x8, can't do cable work at home but will be incorporating weighting bench dips

Dips are a really nice one for the tris

I use rope pull down and skull crushers
 
and have developed tricep and tricep ? bottom of shoulder, ive never had that muscle pop out ever....

Jón Páll Sigmarsson
 Hercules of the 20^th Century

Im doing Close grip bench press and Skulls at the moment and loving it.

Used to love dips, but cant due to shoulder probs now.

Dave

My triceps seem to grow without any isolation / direct work.

Heavy benching and shoulder pressing seems to make mine grow faster than when I included isolations & pre exhausted them.  I think for my body I'd be overtraining my triceps as they get hit a lot already

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