Category: Weight Lifting
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Exercise the Right Way: The Leg Extension
Here are instructions on how to perform the leg extension. One of the most easiest exercises is the leg extension, which is also known as the knee extension or “leg lift machine.” It’s an isolation exercise that targets the quadriceps and strengthens the knee joint. You simply sit on a chair that has a back…
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Weight Lifting Programs Are Largely Incomplete
The American Council on Exercise (ACE) published an article on their Fitnovatives Blog that could surprise many exercisers who think that their weight lifting programs are complete. The basic premise of the article entitled “Shifting is the New Lifting” is that workout programs comprise mainly lifting techniques that directly oppose resistance from gravity, and are…
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Bodybuilding Routines for Sports Training
Among the many expectations that people are likely to have when resistance training is that a bodybuilding routine is good for general or for specific sports training. However, a proper bodybuilding routine is really structured to yield three key cosmetic results: Increased muscular size A well-balanced appearance Achieving or enhancing definition Having the big, symmetric…
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Upper Body Workout Program
Upper body strength and development is one of the most essential aspects that an individual must achieve for whether you are an athlete or a common guy working eight hours a day. Upper body strength and stability is important whether you are trying to throw a javelin, switching from a right handed lay up to…
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Workout Sheets for Weight Lifters
Monday morning you walk into the gym. Chest day? Back day? Or maybe legs? How much weight did I use last week? What exercises did I use last week? How many sets and reps? Maybe you can remember, maybe you can’t. Bottom line is it’s important to know what you’ve done previously and what you …
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How to Deadlift Properly
The deadlift is known as one of the most efficient exercises of all time. This is because the exercise targets nearly all of the major muscles in the body. It primarily targets the hamstrings, your quads, the lower back, the shoulders, the arms and your very core.
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Must Have Weight Training Equipment for Every Muscle in Your Body
Weight training equipment encompasses both traditional free weights and the machines that have arisen to supplement and replace them in the past half century. Let’s say we want to make a simple yet effective home gym, what do we need? There are some pieces of equipment we could do without and still work, if not…
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Weight Lifting Routines for Beginners
Beginners will most likely say the same thing when you ask them what muscle group they would like to develop the most. You’ll certainly get answers like the chest, the shoulders and the arms even the muscles of the back. There are different exercises out there that you can perform in order to help build…
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Effective Pull Up Bar Workouts
One of the best exercises for strengthening and building over all back development is the pull up bar exercise. These exercises are actually simple but difficult exercises that you can perform with just the presence of simple pull up bar equipment. If you haven’t still included pull ups or chin ups in your current workout…
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Get in Shape With Weight Lifting
If you’re looking to get in shape, it’s vital that you take into account the best exercises to help you reach this goal. Sadly, when many people set the goal to get in shape, the first thing they do is gravitate to all the cardio machines in the gym. They figure that the best way…
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Strongman Training Routine
A strongman (or strongwoman) competition is a colorful strength sport with significant differences from both powerlifting and weightlifting. Powerlifting contests combine the squat, bench press, and deadlift. Weightlifting contests, in contrast, combine the snatch and clean-and-jerk. A strongman contest, however, often combines derivatives of the squat, deadlift, clean-and-jerk, and a number of eclectic tests of…
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5 Best Exercises for Glutes
Having a great and aesthetic physique is one of the main goals that many fitness aspirants want to achieve today. Having a great physique means you should have the athletic performance to back you up, as well as the balance and proportioned built that makes up a real fitness sight. Most people, however, tend to…
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Should You Use a Weight Lifting Belt?
It’s not uncommon to see people using weight lifting belts… improperly. Belts are not necessary in the majority of workouts when doing sub-maximal and non-competitive presses, lifts and squats, they are a training aid. It should be sufficient most of the time to take a full breath and simultaneously flex the muscles of the core…
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Workouts To Develop The Quadricep Muscles
One of the most difficult muscle groups to build is probably the quadricep. You may just pump a few reps with bicep curls and you see gains within a few weeks. Perform exercises such as leg extensions for the same time period and still you see little or no gains at all. The development of…
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Weightlifting Shoes, A Must Have or Fashion Accessory?
If you’re working out your most likely wearing shoes, unless you’re doing yoga or thai chi. The options are endless for workout shoes, running, cross training, basketball, tennis but weightlifting? Weightlifting shoes, a must have or fashion accessory? That’s kind of a loaded question. Of course you should be wearing shoes when lifting weights but…
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Using Free Weights Safely To Avoid Injury
It is no wonder why free weights in the gym are the most preferred type of training encouraged by trainers and strength and conditioning specialists due to the wide array of benefits that you can get such as balance, increased strength and muscle mass. However, with the use of these types of exercises, it is…
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Weightlifting for Strength and Conditioning
Often when people imagine weightlifters, they envision a big, bulky Schwarzennegar type, grunting with each rep performed. While it’s certainly a must for those that strive to gain some size, using weightlifting for strength and conditioning will achieve those goals as well as increasing size, shape and function of the muscles, all while burning fat.…
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Routines to Blast Your Triceps
The triceps play a crucial role whether you play any kind of sport that requires arm strength and stability or when you simply pose your muscles at the beach. It also makes up the majority of your total arm size and circumference. In order to help you gain an edge both in aesthetic and athletic…
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Plyometrics and Weight Lifting, Can You Do Both?
What does Plyometrics Mean? Plyometrics and weightlifting, can you do both? Absolutely. In fact, the combination of weight lifting and plyometrics is simply a recipe for a killer body. First of all, a brief description of what plyometrics means. Plyometrics is also known as jump training. It is a style of training the body for…
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Range of Motion and Squat Flexibility for Greater Gains
Range of motion is a crucial aspect of your training program. Using improper form and cheating yourself of full range of motion within an exercise will simply rob you of the results you are trying to achieve. If you are trying to increase the weight load of your squat, flexibility should never be underestimated when…