There are five muscles worked when doing a triceps extension. The main muscle is, obviously, the triceps. Secondary muscles that are worked are the deltoid, pectorals major, latissimus dorsi, and teres major.
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A lying tricep extension is a type of third-class lever exercise. The resistance (weight) is on one end (hand holding the weight), the force is in the middle (elbow joint), and the effort is on the opposite end (tricep muscle).
"Triceps" is singular. "Tricep" is not officially a word, although it it widely used.
The tricep is the muscle on the underside of the upper arm. The muscle on the upper side is the bicep.
The tricep muscle is mainly responsible for the straightening of the arm. This means that the tricep muscles are voluntary, and will only move if we wish to move our arms.
i believe its the triceps
A skeletal muscle.
To strengthen the back of your arm muscle, you can do exercises like tricep dips, tricep extensions, and tricep kickbacks. These exercises target the tricep muscles located at the back of your arms.
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The tricep pushdown exercise primarily targets the triceps muscle group.
I think what your after is called an antagonistic pair of muscles, for example the bicep and the tricep. When the bicep is contracting the tricep relaxes and when the tricep is contracting the bicep relaxes.
There are two main ones, the tricep and the biscep. The tricep bicep is on the inside angle as defined by your elbow, the tricep is on the outside.
your tricep