Kettlebell overhead triceps extension

Sets, reps and RIR

Single-joint work responds to reps and time under tension more than to heavy load.

RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.

Muscles worked

Primary: Triceps.

Estimate your one-rep max

Epley's formula, from a set you have actually done. It is an estimate, and it drifts above eight reps, so keep the input between one and twelve.

What it is called elsewhere

• Norsk Triceps over hodet (kettlebell)
• Svenska Triceps över huvudet (kettlebell)
• Dansk Triceps over hovedet (kettlebell)
• Deutsch Trizepsdrücken über Kopf (Kettlebell)
• Español Extensión de tríceps sobre la cabeza (kettlebell)
• Italiano Estensioni sopra la testa con kettlebell
• Português Tríceps francês (kettlebell)
• Русский Разгибание гири из-за головы
• Français Extension nuque (kettlebell)

Related arms exercises

• Barbell curl
• EZ-bar curl
• Preacher curl (barbell)
• Skull crushers
• Standing French press
• Reverse curl

athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.