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Training Advice on Triceps
Welcome to the training advice page. This page is dedicated over the next few months to giving specialised training techniques to those who wish to improve their weaker body parts or improve their physique overall. The specialised techniques comes from 25 years hard won training experience of a competitive bodybuilder, also used by other athletes to great effect.
This months exercises is the tricep pushdown and the rope split. For pushdowns use a overhead pulley machine, attach a straight or angled bar, place your hands 10" apart with thumbs over (not under) the bar, this helps to lesting your grip taking tention out of thr forearm onto the tricep. Keep your elbows tucked in to your sides and from your shoulders down to your elbows should remain still through out the set. Start the movement with forearms parallel to the floor and push down and outwards away from your body at the same time (the function of the tricep is to push) by pushing the bar slightly away from you instaed of the conventional pushing straight down to the floor puts a greater work load on the tricep

Strating position just above parallel. Half way position Full arm lock out finish position
Tricep Rope Split.
The key to developing good triceps is to work all 3 haeds to the tricep muscle, one which is over looked is the inner tricep, this can be trained specifically using a split movement, used the same as the pushdown movement (above) but with a rope, hoilding the rope in a hammer position, hands 6" apart press down and away from the body, half way position start to turn both hands inwards so palms are facing the floor and part your arms (splitting) the movement, this will put maximum stress on the inner head of the tricep. Again with this exercise do NOT sacrifice form for weight.
Training Advice on Chest
Welcome to the training advice page. This page is dedicated over the next few months to giving specialised training techniques to those who wish to improve their weaker body parts or improve their physique overall. The specialised techniques comes from 25 years hard won training experience of a competitive bodybuilder, also used by other athletes to great effect.
This month's exercise is the decline bench press, this exercise is performed differently from the conventional decline press, instead of taking the bar to the pectoral muscle, the bar in this movement is lowered to the neck which brings in more of the chest and less of the front delt. You will have to lower your weight poundages but the overload will be much greater on the whole of the pectoral muscles. The best way to perform this exercise is in a Smith machine:
Slide a 45% decline bench under Smith Machine bar, with bottom of bench directly placed under bar, by laying on the bench with your head placed at the bottom of bench, hands grip shoulder width apart, keeping the elbows back, lower the bar down to your neck (without weight) adjust bench forward or back for right position. Warm up with just the bar to give you a full stretch.
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| starting position (bar directly above neck) |
half way position |
full rep range to neck |