Arm Workouts: How to Build Bigger Biceps and Triceps

Building bigger biceps and stronger forearms requires specific supersets and mass-building routines using dumbbells and pull-up bars. Learn how to perform push-ups safely even with weak muscles and address shoulder imbalances through targeted weight training.

What Are Your Bicep & Tricep Muscles?

Published Sep,06 2011 | By Carolyn Williams

Your biceps and triceps are the two muscle groups of your upper arm. Don't confuse the biceps brachii, the formal name for the biceps muscles in the arm, with the biceps femoris, which is part of the hamstring muscle that runs up the back of the thigh. Biceps brachii in the arm has two muscles as part of its structure.