Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / arms
Overhead DB tricep extension
Seated or standing, DB overhead two-handed, lower behind head, press up.
Muscles
- Primary
- triceps
- Supporting
- long head tricep
Mechanics
- Pattern
- elbow extension
- Equipment
- dumbbell
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Long head tricep stretched and loaded — no elbow flare, wrists stay neutral.
- Progression
- Increase weight or switch to single-arm version.
- Regression
- Lighter DB and reduce range until elbow control is stable.
Watch for
- Elbows flaring wide instead of pointing forward
- Wrists breaking under load
- Short ROM above parallel
Substitutions
- Skull crusher (EZ-bar)
- Tricep pushdown (rope)
- JM press