Your Arms Will Love This Triceps Pushdown Hack
Change up your triceps pushdown technique with this hack for maximum triceps muscle growth.
Jun 29, 2021
If you're looking to build strong, thick triceps, you've likely come across an exercise known as the triceps pushdown, or triceps pressdown. It's an old-school bodybuilder exercise that isolates the triceps, forcing you to simply straighten your arms and squeeze your triceps.
It's also frequently done in a manner that lets you cheat yourself out of valuable muscle-building stimulus. And that's why
Men's Health fitness director Ebenezer Samuel, C.S.C.S. has slightly tweaked the move. "Triceps pushdowns are great," he says, "but you can't use body lean. That's what too many people do."