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I am totally loving X Reps. They have given my workouts new life, and I’ve already put on five pounds of muscle the first month. Not too shabby. My question is about triceps. I do skull crushers [or lying extensions], and I can’t seem to manage any X Reps at the end of my sets. Are my triceps just too weak down below the middle part of the rep to make X Reps happen?

I am totally loving X Reps. They have given my workouts new life, and I’ve already put on five pounds of muscle the first month. Not too shabby. My question is about triceps. I do skull crushers [or lying extensions], and I can’t seem to manage any X Reps at the end of my sets. Are my triceps just too weak down below the middle part of the rep to make X Reps happen?

 

A: Not at all. As we say in The Ultimate Mass Workout e-book, some exercises have a leverage shift that makes X Reps difficult or nearly impossible below the middle of the stroke. Lying extensions, barbell squats and barbell curls are in that group.

On lying extensions the arc of the rep and gravity create odd leverage at the X spot—between the bottom and middle of the stroke. We tried using partner assistance, like forced-rep partials, but that was awkward, so we found another solution. We do our lying extensions to failure, then, using the same weight, we launch into a set of close-grip bench presses. When we can’t get another rep on those, we do X Reps right below the midpoint of the press. You can use that superset whether you’re doing extensions with an EZ-curl bar or two dumbbells. You’ll feel your triceps firing like never before. We’ve both noticed new growth in our triceps’ long head thanks to that combo.

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