Holding a loaded EZ bar using a narrow pronated (overhand) grip, sit on a bench or a chair that supports your back.
Press the EZ bar over your head.
Execution
Keeping your upper arms fixed and your elbows close to your head, inhale as you flex your elbows and lower the EZ bar behind your head in a semicircular motion.
Exhale as you reverse the motion and push the EZ bar back over your head.
Repeat.
Comments and tips
Keep your elbows close to your head. Otherwise your shoulder muscles (deltoids) will get involved and the exercise will turn into a shoulder press (see the second video). If you find yourself having to move your elbows out to the sides to press the EZ bar up, it means that you are using too heavy a weight.
Keep your body and upper arms still. Only your forearms should move.
Do not use a thumbless grip (aka suicide grip) with this exercise!
Using the EZ bar instead of a standard barbell can be easier on your wrists.
You can of course perform the overhead EZ bar triceps extension while standing.
