Tricep pushups

Whoever suggested to try tricep pullups, thanks a lot. Turns out that my tricep muscles are woefully inadequate. Trcipe pullusp are a great and cheap way to quickly gain some triceps.

Just as a note, a tricep pushup is a pushup where both of your palms are in the middle, under the chest, and not to the sides, as with a regular pushup. It the tricep variant, one palm rests on top of another. Much more difficult than a regular pushup!

Another good tricep one is a tricep dip done with a step or bench. Reverse plank position (body straight, face up, hands behind you, palms down) on a bench or step.

Thank you. Sorry for the numerous typos in my original post, I posted right after trying a few tricep pushups.

I started around September, if my memory serves me right, when I could do about 6 pullups. Was not doing much, just maybe 12 or so per day. It got me to 10 pullups, not so great form, around new years. At new years, after reading a bit about GTG routines, I decided to stick to them as they seemed easy enough and gave a lot of "bang for the buck". That increased my performance to 14 good form pullups as of now.

In january, (up to yesterday) my GTG routine was a set of 10 in the morning, and sets of 5 throughout the day (except, obviously, when I was at work). Maybe 25-40 per day total.

Right now my GTG routine is a set of 12 in the morning, and sets of 7 reps throughout the day.

About shoulder wide, palms facing away from me.

All the tricep aka bat wings exercises you could want:
http://www.exrx.net/Lists/ExList/ArmWt.html

Have fun,

Thanks for the description of the tricep pushup. I can see how the tricep is targeted now.

I dunno, to me it was a fairly lousy level. Remember that I was 47 lbs fattier before the beginning of my dieting in june 2003. So I naturally had enough muscle to kind of keep me in a marginal shape even when I was obese. Meaning that I could run for a while and do a couple of pullups even when I was obese. Then I lost 47 lbs and it helped my pullup performance. (I tried to keep muscle during weight loss).

To me, 6 pullups is not that great of a shape. Our PT techer used to call everyone who could not do 10 pullups a "rickety dystrophic".

Tricep seems to be the only muscle that does all the work in a tricep pushup. They are hard! (for me) I will keep doing a few at a time, it seems just exactly hard enough to make my triceps grow.