will doing TRICEP exerc. for 5 days a week help?

Question

close-grip bench, tricep dip, tricep press, kickbacks, tricep extension...I will be doing these exercises for 5 days a week and I will do each one for about 20,15,10 in reps and rest 1 minute and resume 20,15,10 reps rest 30 and end in 20,15,10. I am trying to get nice arms and shoulders while adding weights to my work out.

I use 5 lb dumb bells. I have a workout routine that has cardio and taebo with rest on the weekends.

I AM NOT OVERWEIGHT. I have a nice body it is just that I want my arms and shoulders to be more defined. You know, the CUTS... I am 5'4.5" and I weigh 127 lbs.

Answer 1

Are you doing an overall body workout? Those are great exercises for the triceps, definitely! However, you should also be working all the major muscle groups of the upper and lower body, or at the very least, your upper body. Opposing muscle groups, e.g. chest/back, then shoulders, biceps and triceps. If you're working those triceps, then you should be working those biceps as well. Also, an optimum workout schedule is working a certain set of muscle groups only every other day...you need to give the muscles 48 hrs. to rest so they can rebuild, etc. to get the look you're going for. Stretch after working out, make sure you're getting some cardio in as well. You sound determined and disciplined, which is most of the battle, believe me! Good luck!

Answer 2

First off, I assume you'll be doing other exercises as well, right? focusing only on your triceps can overdevelop them in relation to your other muscles, and can actually lead to injury later on when your relatively weaker muscles try to compensate for your beefy triceps. Make sure to balance out your workout with regular curls, reverse hammer curls, chest and military presses, butterfly and deltoid reverse flies. The sets you have planned are pretty aggressive, but as long as you monitor your condition and progress and stop if you feel excessive pain, you should be all right.

The schedule is also a little aggressive; I'd recommend 3-4 days a week for a workout as intensive as this, with a day in between workouts for either ab/leg excercises or aerobic activity. You must remember that when you do weight training, you are actually introducing tiny tears in the muscle tissue, which your body repairs by building up the muscle fibers to compensate for future activity at this level. Eating a balanced diet and giving each muscle group time to repair the damage and build up mass will be better for you in the long run than a daily lift-to-failure kind of routine.

Answer 3

You need more rest than that, you are talking 400 reps, to do this more than once in five days is not good. Hard work is good but rest is just as important. When I changed from a three day split to a four day split I was amazed at the gains that I made. As corny as it sounds,work hard, eat right, and get plenty of sleep.

Answer 4

It will not help. You need to have a full day of rest between workouts, and you need to work out harder on the days that you do work out. No shortcuts.
The problem is mostly that your body proably has too much fat. Change your diet, lose weight over your whole body, and then your arms will follow. Always follow - you can't lose in your arms first and have your body follow.

Answer 5

not really, it's better when you do them 3-4 times a week.. I did tricept exercises and bicept exercises also.. It helped me more since I didn't overtrain my muscles... You're muscles grow when they're resting...

Answer 6

your doing good. it will deffinately tone your arms and shoulders. five days is good. keep it up!