Overhead Triceps Extension with Bed Sheet

Perform the overhead triceps extension using a bed sheet for resistance. This exercise targets the triceps muscles effectively.

  1. Stand or sit with your feet shoulder-width apart.
  2. Hold the ends of the bed sheet with both hands, extending your arms overhead.
  3. Lower the sheet behind your head by bending your elbows, keeping your upper arms stationary.
  4. Extend your arms back to the starting position, engaging your triceps.

How to perform the Overhead Triceps Extension with Bed Sheet

  1. Set up. Set up in a stable, balanced starting position appropriate for the Overhead Triceps Extension with Bed Sheet using your body weight.
  2. Brace and execute. Brace your core, control the descent, and move through a full pain-free range of motion while emphasizing your triceps.
  3. Reset. Reverse the movement under control and reset between repetitions, keeping your form crisp on every rep.

Coaching cues

  • Move with intent — every rep should feel deliberate, not rushed.
  • Drive force through your triceps rather than momentum.
  • Keep your breathing steady: exhale on the hard part, inhale on the reset.

Common mistakes

  • Using too much weight and losing positional control.
  • Cutting the range of motion short and missing the target muscle.
  • Letting your spine round or hyperextend instead of staying neutral.

Detailed cues, common mistakes, and demonstration video are available in the Fitly app.

Build a free routine

Stage exercises here, then sign up to save them as a real Fitly routine — synced to web and mobile.

View staged routine (0)

Related exercises

0 exercises staged Save your routine — sign up free.