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

• Norwegian Triceps over hodet
• Swedish Triceps över huvudet
• Danish Triceps over hovedet
• German Trizepsdrücken über Kopf
• Spanish Extensión de tríceps sobre la cabeza
• Italian Estensioni sopra la testa
• Portuguese Tríceps francês (halteres)
• Russian Разгибание гантели из-за головы
• French Extension nuque (haltère)

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.