tricep healing time.

AIucard · 31-Mar-04, 08:19 PM

Yesterday i worked my triceps 3 hours. how many days would u say i would need to recover until my next tricep exercise day? My arms are killing me right now and my chest. I did skullcrushers,benchpressing,tricep kickbacks, triceps cable pulldown.

**Gooseneck** · 31-Mar-04, 09:46 PM

3 hours ??!! You might as well hang tight for about a week or so because you over did it. You only need to be working out 45 minutes to an hour. Anything after that and you're just prolonging your recovery time until your next workout.

mesomorph · 31-Mar-04, 10:21 PM

Mate, triceps are a reletively small muscle and don't require a great deal of stimulus to get them pumped. They also don't require a huge volume of work because they assist in so many other exercises. Just choose 2 of those exercises you currently use. With good form and the correct weight 3 sets of 8-10 each should be plenty.
3 hrs is a very long time to spend in a gym. Remember, more is not necessarily better in regards to weight training. Overtraining is very detrimental to muscle growth. The body goes into a catabolic state ie opposite to what we actually want to happen. Gooseneck has suggested the optimal time frame. As long as you train intensely and smart, this should be more than adequate.

nicmdca · 02-Apr-04, 11:28 PM

mesomorph is dumb, triceps are 2/3 of your upper arm. if you want big arms, you want big tri's

MonStar · 02-Apr-04, 11:34 PM

Worked your triceps 3 hours?

Definitely way too much. 15-20 minutes is enough for me.

DaRkAnGel · 02-Apr-04, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicmdca

mesomorph is dumb, triceps are 2/3 of your upper arm. if you want big arms, you want big tri's

No actually, you are dumb. Read his post next time before flaming please, he never said that they wern't. 3 hours is crazy time to work anything, period.

genEus · 03-Apr-04, 06:35 AM

If your goal is to add mass and if you’re training intensely and your spending more than 10-15 minutes on either biceps or triceps, you’re overtraining. With arms it’s always quality over quantity that counts.

monsta · 03-Apr-04, 06:27 PM

wow.. what made you wanna do tri for 3 hrs? no wonder your in pain!
and when goosneck say's 45 min's he dont mean just tri's either..

@ nicmdca...
I dont think that was called for, the advice given was good..
I think youv'e showed who the dumb one is!

MonStar · 07-Apr-04, 10:06 AM

Was AIucard really banned? Or did he just put that as his sub-title under his username as a joke? :confused: