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Exploring the Triceps

The PT Project Podcast

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The Benefits of Using the Long Head in Leg Presses

If I go through a tricep exercise where I simultaneously perform shoulder flexion with elbow extension. My arm is coming forwards as my elbow is extending like it would do in a bench press, right, or anything kind of like that. Well, let's think about what the long head does if I was to fire it up because I'm trying to extend my elbow. And so your body just doesn't really send much electrical activity to them. It asks other guys to do the task. This is the explanation, by the way, for why the hamstrings don't grow in leg presses and squats and lunges and nauders rec femme. That one of the joint functions that

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