Long head tricep

[GenetiKing]

You can shift the emphasis of a particular exercise on different portions of a given muscle but you will not be able to change the inherent shape of a muscle which is genetically predetermined.

From a biomechanical persepctive, you definitely can redirect the majority of a workload to certain tricep head but to say that that will cause increased growth in that head has never been proven.

For instance, applying the concept of "active insufficiency" to the triceps: The inner head will be carrying more of a workload doing any "overhead" tricep exercise simply because it is placed on stretch from this position and will achieve more contractile force this way. (Remember that the other two heads DO NOT attach at the shoulder...just at the elbow...and are therefore not multijoint muscles so we cannot apply active or inactive insufficiency to them). Likewise, the inner head will be working to a lesser degree from the opposite position (arms to the side...cable pushdowns of any variation) since the inner head is not being placed on stretch at the non-moving articulation (shoulder joint).

Clear as mud?

 

[bignate73]

Clear as mud?

my brain hurts....can you explain a bit faster? sorry...A.D.D. kicking in.

hehehe.

 

[GenetiKing]

my brain hurts....can you explain a bit faster? sorry...A.D.D. kicking in.

hehehe.

That's not A.D.D. kicking in, nate....just mental lactic acid. Feel the burn baby!

 

[Exodus]

keep your elbows in....... tuck on your tricep exercises and watch it grow........ i had the opposite problem..... i tucke for so long that my long head dwarfs my outer head

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[bigmag]

make sure you lock your elbows out when you work your tri's....that's primarily when you flex the medial head of your tricep ( or long head....as you called it). kick-backs also work really well for giving you that horse shoe look for your tri's.

 

[musclefattie]

thanks for the advice, today is tricep day and i intend to try the reverse benches, tucked in shoulder presses(as a arm up) and overhead extentions...as far as kick backs are concerned i haven't done them in years but what the hell maybe the shock will do my tris good..once again thanks for all the advice now just need to see what works

 

[GenetiKing]

thanks for all the advice now just need to see what works

I just told you...

You can shift the emphasis of a particular exercise on different portions of a given muscle but you will not be able to change the inherent shape of a muscle which is genetically predetermined.

From a biomechanical persepctive, you definitely can redirect the majority of a workload to certain tricep head but to say that that will cause increased growth in that head has never been proven.

For instance, applying the concept of "active insufficiency" to the triceps: The inner head will be carrying more of a workload doing any "overhead" tricep exercise simply because it is placed on stretch from this position and will achieve more contractile force this way. (Remember that the other two heads DO NOT attach at the shoulder...just at the elbow...and are therefore not multijoint muscles so we cannot apply active or inactive insufficiency to them). Likewise, the inner head will be working to a lesser degree from the opposite position (arms to the side...cable pushdowns of any variation) since the inner head is not being placed on stretch at the non-moving articulation (shoulder joint).

Clear as mud?

In other words...
Any overhead extension exercise for triceps will prioritize the inner head due to the biomechanical reasons I just gave you. However, simply because you are redirecting the emphasis to another portion of a given muscle is no guarantee that it will grow faster than another portion.