French press

[Fergie Boy]

What is it and what is the correct form to perform it?

heard some people talking about it in the gym and just nodded and went along looking all wise and knowing like.

[Starboy]

Maybe they meant to say bench press but they were so hopped up on 'roids to properly pronounce words. I've been to gyms with crazy roid junkies like that. :)

edit: Turns out I don't know what the hell I'm talking about:

http://www.thepumpingstation.com/french.html

[YODA]

The French Press

[Cain]

ROFLMAO!!!! :D

|Cain|

[morphus]

I thought it was Grape treading:confused:

[movado]

french press is a seated version of the overhead tricep extension.there is also the lying tricep extension also known as skull crushers.you lift the weight using the strength of your tricep muscles only.it's an isolation movement as opposed to compound movements which utilize various muscles working simultaneously,such as a benchpress which works chest,deltoids and triceps simultaneously,while tricep extensions,concentration curls and wrist curls work just one muscle at a time.
with a frenchpress you use an ez-curl bar,with skull crushers,the same,with regular tricep extensions you can use a dumbell or cables on a nautilas machine or a total gym.
doing tricep extensions or french presses works the triceps in a pumping up type of style training while bench presses and regular overhead presses work the triceps in a purely strength based type of way unless done for 15 or more reps which then will pump the triceps but still will not make them really burn like tricep extensions and french presses will.

[YODA]

Psst - Movado - I knew that :D

[Knight_Errant]

I'm dubious. I think these isolation exercises are limited at best in their application.

[YODA]

Originally posted by Knight_errant
I'm dubious. I think these isolation exercises are limited at best in their application.


Sure they are.

Big compiund lifts is where it's at for martial artists - not isolation exrecises.

Sheesh - people will be doing concentration curls next!

[Fergie Boy]

no Preacher curls!! you need a bit more equipment for them.