Biceps and Triceps exercises: are both involved?

Asked by: Sergey Jacobson

By working your triceps and biceps together, you can recover and follow a muscle-group split during your weekly training regimen. This allows you to train your arms more than one day a week with ample recovery time, which is helpful if your goal is to build muscle mass.

Are biceps and triceps antagonistic pairs?

In an antagonistic muscle pair as one muscle contracts the other muscle relaxes or lengthens. The muscle that is contracting is called the agonist and the muscle that is relaxing or lengthening is called the antagonist.
Antagonistic muscle pairs.

What do you superset biceps with?

The 7 best bicep supersets

1. Spider curls and incline curls.
2. Dumbbell curls and hammer curls.
3. Reverse curls and regular curls.
4. Drag curls and barbell curls.
5. Cable curls and band curls.
6. Door curls and towel curls.
7. Chin-ups and curls.
8. The no weight bicep superset.

What is the best tricep exercise?

The 8 Most Effective Triceps Exercises

• Diamond Push-Ups.
• Kickbacks.
• Dips.
• Overhead Triceps Extensions.
• Rope Pushdowns.
• Bar Pushdowns.
• Lying Triceps Extensions.
• Close Grip Bench Presses.