Trick out Your Triceps

Trick out Your Triceps

Strengthen your biggest little muscle with these targeted moves

Fact: Your triceps make up more of your arm than your biceps do. Yet they often get shortchanged at the gym. Before you can give them the attention they’re due, you need to know that they’re made up of three different parts--the medial, long, and lateral heads. This trio works together to bend the elbow.

The best way to make them stronger is to do exercises that isolate each head. "Compound movements like pushups and bench presses recruit larger muscle groups, too, so the triceps don’t work as hard," says Holly Rigsby, a personal trainer in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.