Decline EZ Bar Triceps Extension with Barbell

🎯 Triceps🏋️ BarbellIsolation

How to do the decline ez bar triceps extension with barbell

  1. Lay face up on a decline bench and grasp an EZ Bar (Curved Barbell).
  2. Extend your arms so they are perpendicular to your chest, and keeping your elbows in one place, lower the bar toward your head.
  3. Slowly return to the starting position.

Muscles worked

The prime mover is the triceps brachii, which straightens the elbow, and through its long head helps pull the arm back at the shoulder.

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How this movement works

Everything happens at one joint. That gives you direct control over where the tension sits; the trade-off is that the muscle gets no help, so the load that feels hard here is a fraction of what a multi-joint version of the pattern would take. Slow, complete repetitions beat heavy ones.

It is filed under strength: produce force against resistance for a countable number of repetitions, and progress the resistance over time.

What you need

A barbell locks both hands to one bar, so neither side can drift and the load climbs in plate-sized steps. That makes it the simplest way to add weight and the least forgiving thing to bail out of.

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These train the triceps too, using equipment this one does not:

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