Is Close GRIP Bench Press BETTER than ISOLATION Exercises for Building Triceps?

I was just thinking about this

Mountain 💪❤

I use isolation movements and close grip benching for triceps. Love them both. 💪❤️🏋️‍♀️

Another Banger as is your modus operandi Jason
PS … I know you are in actuality Duncan Macloud of the clan Macloud…
Maclountain…

Negative. Both.

Listening to your muscles, I call that body language. 😁

Great info thanks

That was a good point you brought up Jason that a compound lift will sometimes do a better job than an isolation exercise. LIKE I've done various isolations for the Long head of my triceps, but through my experience nothing works better for me than the good old fashioned chin-up.

Can weighted dips if done correctly to bias the tris be a substitute for the close grip and will weighted dips biasing the tris work the long head?

What are your thoughts on the J.M. press? I find it’s great for tricep development and strength. Keeping my elbows high gives me an amazing, long ecentric. When I can’t press the bar back up with the JM, I move the elbows down into a close grip position to press it back up, and just repeat the JM ecentric. Great for going deeper into failure.

Jason - thank you for a clear presentation of why to do the close-grip bench press. Enjoying all your videos.

As someone who is short, I naturally have a close grip bench. My triceps get ridiculously bigger. I know it means less activation for my chest, but sometimes you just got to do what makes you feel good.

I find it interesting on the way you pump some of these movements. This was a standard thing I've seen in old bodybuilding videos and it requires a lot of control to stablize. You don't see that anymore with the whole Full ROM Rules being preached. Also you got that to stablizing down to perfection. The other day I tried and it was difficult to execute as smooth. -Mountain! ⛰️💪

Great video!

I use the Smith machine to do this. As with everything Smith machine, positioning the body is the variable to play with: move forward (towards feet) for triceps, back (towards head) for inner chest. Thanks for all your content...!

You have any thoughts on JM presses?

got lot more size and definition over last 2 years using a tricep pushdowns with a 150 pound rated resistance band and tricep overhead extension with resitance bands and i just bought a Triceps Bar done some skull crushers felt more intense contraction in my triceps than a regular bar and some 80 pound hammer curls today with it feel pretty good noticed since i increased my hammer curl volume over last few months my biceps got lot fuller looking over all few months back i was doing lot preacher and concentration curls

Close grips my favorite tricep exercise. Its thats and pushdown thats basically built my triceps.

Totally agree sometimes the compound movements are the way to go .Love the close grip Barbell press.💪🏽Mountain!

jason gallant "the muscle whisperer"

I always do close grip, mainly because I am not as strong on bench with a wide grip. I tried wide grip before but the exercise to me felt more like wasting time and not as effective as close grip. I can lift heavier and hit more muscle groups with the close grip.

Great explanation, I use close grip The great Charles Poliquin used this exercise for triceps 👍👍👍👍👍👍

So happy to see your channel growing! This by itself is amazing since yours is one of the rare channels that arent based on absolutism, but its absolutely deserved (to say the least). Mountain!

Yeah i agree there is method in the madness another example is for ABS hanging leg raises vs sit ups

Don`t really do close grip bench all too often but I like doing it immediately after hitting failure with lying triceps extensions. It is a great way of bringing the triceps deeper into failure imo. I have also been playing around with the dumbbell version you showed us years ago that is somewhat of a modified version of the close grip bench. Almost like a skullcrusher to the chest, do you still do that one?

What about JM press? Would that be better than skull crushers and close grip bench?

Speaking of triceps, I added in some heavy pushdowns yesterday but today my triceps aren't sore at all. My lats are sore for some reason though. I did very strict form, only the elbow moving, felt the triceps working while doing the movement, yet they are not sore at all today. Should I keep the movement in? (side note: i got a really good pump from it during the workout)

I've always done Narrow Grip Bench and I have great allround triceps development. Once you get the feel for them you will not be able to leave them alone!

My close grip bench is healthier than covid vaccines

Great point with the partials and i actually realise this doing chest presses onna machine. I kepmy my elbows close and did partials and got a great tricep workout

What the deal with this sasquatch stuff. Pleaee read the ingredients of your preworkout 😂

Another great version is to do a close grip military press. Famous assistance exercise for world class bencher McDonald in 70s. I love it. Do it standing or sitting and you can get different effects by the upward plane angle you raise weight

I feel like it's good to vary the tricep exercises and angles. Even just with cable pushdowns, do some with an arcing motion (elbows in) and some more like a standing close-grip press (elbows out). Different angles with target and grow different parts of the muscle groups, so I definitely suggest playing around and including different things.

Hey Jason I was natural bodybuilding for about 6 years. I peaked out at 155 5'3 8%Bf.
But I've fallen out with bbing hard because cheaters but anyway. Now I'm doing judo and wanting to practice Kyokoshin karate. How can I get the best bang for my buck between Bbing and MMA? Thanks

What are your thoughts on reverse grip bench press teach any good wisdom appreciated thanks

It's pretty hard to get to the long head of the triceps without inadvertently bringing in the lateral head and some measure of shoulders/chest, especially in the compound. I do CGBP from the pins as a sort of JM Press only because it offers a similar stretch to behind the head skull crushers with a pressing movement. As such it's gentler on the elbows than a straight up skull crusher. I also use a regular CGBP on another day. About 25 years ago I used both CGBP and weighted dips as assistance exercises for getting a better BP, which always lagged due to triceps lockout issues..

I like to use an ez-curl bar for my close grip benches!! That exercise, and dips totally changed my triceps for the better.
Isolation exercises are ok for finishing, and "feel" but if you want mass you need to stick to compound (natural) movements!!

What do u think about pull up or chin up are better than curls for biceps because they are compound exercises. There are some atheletes with great biceps even though they do not do curls

Hi man thanks.. not locking triceps at the top ??

I like the ez bar skullcrusher + cgb combo

And i know ct fletcher may not be natural but he used the lying dumbbell skullcrushers a lot for his triceps, enhanced or not they were a strong part of his body composittion.