Overhead Triceps Extension (Band)
Trains the triceps, with help from the shoulders. You need a resistance band. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
Technique
How to do the Overhead Triceps Extension (Band)
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, placing the middle of the resistance band under both feet. Hold the handles of the resistance band with both hands and extend your arms overhead, keeping your elbows close to your ears and your palms facing each other.
- Lower the handles behind your head by bending your elbows until your forearms are about parallel to the floor, keeping your upper arms stationary.
- Extend your arms back to the starting position by straightening your elbows.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Keep your elbows close to your ears and avoid flaring them out to isolate the triceps.
- Keep your shoulders down and relaxed to avoid neck tension.
- Exhale as you extend your arms and inhale as you lower them back down.
Muscles worked
What Overhead Triceps Extension (Band) trains
In the programs
None of our programs use the Overhead Triceps Extension (Band)
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a triceps exercise that is, there are 15 on the Triceps page.
Substitutes
Swap Overhead Triceps Extension (Band) for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run the Overhead Triceps Extension (Band) for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.