 Good triceps exercises you can do using your body weight.
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Good Body Weight Exercises -
Body Weight Triceps Exercises
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1. Start by lying face down and placing your hands near your shoulders with your elbows pointing up.
2. Keeping your trunk straight press your hands into the floor so that your upper body and hips come up off the ground into a push up position.
3. Now you are in a modified push up position from your knees.
4. Bend your elbows so that your chest touches the ground and then repeat by returning to the top position.
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Body Weight Triceps Exercises
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Primary Muscle Group: Plyometrics - Upper Body
Muscle Groups Worked in This Exercise: Chest
Preparation: Start in a standard pushup position except your knees remain on the ground.
Execution: Lower yourself to the ground and then explosively push up so that your hands leave the ground. Catch your fall you're your hands and immediately lower yourself into a pushup again and repeat.
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Good Body Weight Exercises -
Body Weight Triceps Exercises
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Primary Muscle Group: Plyometrics - Upper Body
Muscle Groups Worked in This Exercise: Chest
Preparation: Start in a standard pushup position.
Execution: Lower yourself to the ground and then explosively push up so that your hands leave the ground. Catch your fall you're your hands and immediately lower yourself into a pushup again and repeat.
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Body Weight Triceps Exercises
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Primary Muscle Group: Pectoralis Major
Muscle Groups Worked in This Exercise: Pectoralis Major, Anterior Deltoid, Triceps Brachii
Preparation: Lie prone on floor with hands slightly wider than shoulder width. Place hands staggered in position from one another. One more forward and one more back from the other. Raise body up off floor by extending arms with body straight.
Breathing: Breath out on the contraction of the muscle and breath back in on the way back to the start position.
Execution: Keeping body straight, lower body to floor by bending arms. Push body up until arms are extended. Repeat.
Comments: Both upper and lower body must be kept straight throughout movement.
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Good Body Weight Exercises -
Body Weight Triceps Exercises
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Primary Muscle Group: Pectoralis Major
Muscle Groups Worked in This Exercise: Pectoralis Major, Anterior Deltoid, Triceps Brachii
Preparation: Lie prone on floor with hands slightly wider than shoulder width. Place hands facing inward with fingers facing each other. Raise body up off floor by extending arms with body straight.
Breathing: Breath out on the contraction of the muscle and breath back in on the way back to the start position.
Execution: Keeping body straight, lower body to floor by bending arms. Push body up until arms are extended. Repeat.
Comments: Both upper and lower body must be kept straight throughout movement.
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Body Weight Triceps Exercises
