I don’t know what it is but I always seems to get a half-decent pump after eating at McDonald’s.
Tonight was a brief bout of arms …and some abs for fun. Normally I consider it ‘triceps and legs’ day, but with the biking I’ve been doing to work lately (it’s been great weather …5 miles each way) the legs just don’t respond all that well. So two different tricep exercises (5 sets, 10-6 reps decreasing) while super-setting a routine of biceps and some standard crunches.
The first exercise was tricep pull-downs. More or less as the picture indicates, except I used a rope so the grip can vary through the motion, plus your grip will be with your thumb pointing up (kinda like Fonzie’s ‘thumb’s up’) but of course your thumb is wrapped around the rope. Both hands at once. The other exercise was simple over-head extensions. Like the diagram too, except I was seated for mine. Remember to keep you back straight though …and if you use heavy weights while seated for this, a weight belt isn’t a bad investment. I used to have one …but then I used to lift heavy weights at one time too. Between each set of tri’s I’d do a set of biceps (just reg. alternating dumbbell curls) and when I changed tricep exercises I also switched from biceps to some basic flat crunches. And yeah, there’s a good and a bad way to do sit-ups – so maybe I’ll touch on that next time.
tricep pull down – standing tricep extension
Images from “weight-lifting-workout-routines.com“
