Best ways to tone up triceps

Grnhouse
Grnhouse Posts: 254 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Is it better to use machines or dumbbells?

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  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    What is your goal? Toning means losing fat to reveal muscle, so in that case...you'd want to lose fat, and weight train to save muscle. Triceps can be hit really well just doing compound lifts. For accessory work, I'll do anything for triceps...I like skull crushers, but I'll use cables and machines too.
  • Muscleflex79
    Muscleflex79 Posts: 1,917 Member
    bbell1985 wrote: »
    What is your goal? Toning means losing fat to reveal muscle, so in that case...you'd want to lose fat, and weight train to save muscle. Triceps can be hit really well just doing compound lifts. For accessory work, I'll do anything for triceps...I like skull crushers, but I'll use cables and machines too.

    exactly this! you can't "tone" a muscle...if you are wanting to build muscle stuff like close grip bench press is great, but you'll need to lose fat if you want to reveal the muscle.
  • pondee629
    pondee629 Posts: 2,469 Member
    Grnhouse wrote: »
    Is it better to use machines or dumbbells?

    I almost always prefer free weights dumbbells, barbells (with compound lifts), to machines as they, free weights, engage more muscles in their use.
  • Fallfrenzy
    Fallfrenzy Posts: 118 Member
    I use a combination of both as well. Lately I have been using TRX, as I found that this engaged both my triceps and core.
  • SonyaCele
    SonyaCele Posts: 2,841 Member
    there are a zillion tricep exercises. Google them and do a handful of different ones a couple times a week, i do them in the 8-10 rep range for hypertrophy. i use the bar, cable machine, dumbells, bands, trx, and just about anything. As long as you are focusing on your tricep muscles they'll get the workout.

    Despite the general consensus on this forum, You don't have to lose fat to have toned arms . that's a personal decision based on the aesthetic look you want to achieve, or how you want to feel. For me, i'm happy with my pumped up triceps under my layer of body fat. . Personally I don't care for how women's arms look when they are super low body fat. Lowering body fat is not always the answer to everything.
  • DX2JX2
    DX2JX2 Posts: 1,921 Member
    Push ups. No equipment needed and you'll work a bunch of other stuff at the same time.
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