Lifting Routines
Last fitness weightlifting post, I revealed the best lower back exercises as well as the reasons behind why the lower back is such a critical part to your overall muscular strength. So many weightlifters, beginners and advanced, continue to ignore the lower back in their lifting routines. Most of you probably have never even thought of strengthening your lower back until reading my last two posts.
A strong lower back is needed to give your body stability and protect your body from injuries. When doing any standing exercise (i.e. squats), a strong lower back is needed to perform the proper lifting techniques. With that strength, you’d be able to balance your body and handle the pressure that can be placed on the lower back. A strong lower back is also needed to prevent injuries that can easily occur from those standing exercises. The most common area where injuries occur is the lower back so it’s critical to include these exercises in your lifting routines.
Now, it’s time to move on to the next fitness weightlifting muscle, the shoulders. Next to the chest, shoulders are the most important part of the upper body. In fact, to have a strong chest, strong shoulders are critical. Why? The shoulders are needed to be strong because they take part in every upper body muscle: chest, biceps, triceps and back. So without solid shoulder lifting routines, you’ll be making life harder for yourself.
Here are some of the best shoulder exercises you should include in your lifting routines. And always remember, just doing the exercises isn’t good enough; you need to do them with the correct lifting techniques so click on the link below to help you with the right form.
BARBELL MILITARY PRESS (Front and Upper Deltoids)
This is the best shoulder fitness weightlifting exercise out there, especially if you want to gain mass. Although you can do the same exercise with dumbbells, the barbell tends to make it easier to focus and strengthen the muscle. You can do this exercise with either a squat machine or the smithe machine. Always use a spotter if you do the exercise on a squat machine to prevent injuries and to make sure you use the correct lifting techniques.
LATERAL RAISES (Side Deltoids)
This fitness weightlifting exercise is the best lift to work the side delts. It works and rips your shoulders so well and is needed to improve the overall muscular strength in the shoulders. You can perform this exercise with cables or dumbbells but I believe you’ll get the best results with dumbbells. I would include this exercise in all shoulder lifting routines.
REVERSE FLYS (Rear Deltoids)
There are very few fitness weightlifting exercises that you can do that will concentrate the back portion of the shoulders however, reverse flys is one of them. With this exercise, I would suggest using dumbbells but for those beginner weightlifters, a machine or cables would be better just until you get the right lifting techniques down.
SHRUGS (Traps)
Strong trap muscles are important to being a strong lifter, not to improve your overall strength but to prevent potential neck injuries. Fitness weightlifting will inevitably wear out your body but by strengthening all your muscles, you can prevent those small injuries that can nag you for years. You can do this exercise with either a barbell or dumbbells; I advise the more beginner weightlifter to use the dumbbells only to perfect the lifting techniques. Then move on to the barbell.
I know that some of these fitness weightlifting exercises might be unfamiliar to you, especially for those beginner lifters, so instead of boring you with more words, I’ll give you a website where you can go ahead and visit. It’s so important to use the right lifting techniques on every exercise so please visit this website to make sure you do each exercise properly. Go Here
If you have any questions or comments about any fitness weightlifting topic, please email me and I’ll try to answer as soon as possible. Don’t be afraid to ask for help, I’m confident that I can answer any of your questions. It doesn’t matter what topic you are having trouble with, I’ll do my best to get you on the right path with fitness weightlifting.
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Lifting Routines
Last fitness weightlifting post, I revealed the best lower back exercises as well as the reasons behind why the lower back is such a critical part to your overall muscular strength. So many weightlifters, beginners and advanced, continue to ignore the lower back in their lifting routines. Most of you probably have never even thought of strengthening your lower back until reading my last two posts.
A strong lower back is needed to give your body stability and protect your body from injuries. When doing any standing exercise (i.e. squats), a strong lower back is needed to perform the proper lifting techniques. With that strength, you’d be able to balance your body and handle the pressure that can be placed on the lower back. A strong lower back is also needed to prevent injuries that can easily occur from those standing exercises. The most common area where injuries occur is the lower back so it’s critical to include these exercises in your lifting routines.
Now, it’s time to move on to the next fitness weightlifting muscle, the shoulders. Next to the chest, shoulders are the most important part of the upper body. In fact, to have a strong chest, strong shoulders are critical. Why? The shoulders are needed to be strong because they take part in every upper body muscle: chest, biceps, triceps and back. So without solid shoulder lifting routines, you’ll be making life harder for yourself.
Here are some of the best shoulder exercises you should include in your lifting routines. And always remember, just doing the exercises isn’t good enough; you need to do them with the correct lifting techniques so click on the link below to help you with the right form.
BARBELL MILITARY PRESS (Front and Upper Deltoids)
This is the best shoulder fitness weightlifting exercise out there, especially if you want to gain mass. Although you can do the same exercise with dumbbells, the barbell tends to make it easier to focus and strengthen the muscle. You can do this exercise with either a squat machine or the smithe machine. Always use a spotter if you do the exercise on a squat machine to prevent injuries and to make sure you use the correct lifting techniques.
LATERAL RAISES (Side Deltoids)
This fitness weightlifting exercise is the best lift to work the side delts. It works and rips your shoulders so well and is needed to improve the overall muscular strength in the shoulders. You can perform this exercise with cables or dumbbells but I believe you’ll get the best results with dumbbells. I would include this exercise in all shoulder lifting routines.
REVERSE FLYS (Rear Deltoids)
There are very few fitness weightlifting exercises that you can do that will concentrate the back portion of the shoulders however, reverse flys is one of them. With this exercise, I would suggest using dumbbells but for those beginner weightlifters, a machine or cables would be better just until you get the right lifting techniques down.
SHRUGS (Traps)
Strong trap muscles are important to being a strong lifter, not to improve your overall strength but to prevent potential neck injuries. Fitness weightlifting will inevitably wear out your body but by strengthening all your muscles, you can prevent those small injuries that can nag you for years. You can do this exercise with either a barbell or dumbbells; I advise the more beginner weightlifter to use the dumbbells only to perfect the lifting techniques. Then move on to the barbell.
I know that some of these fitness weightlifting exercises might be unfamiliar to you, especially for those beginner lifters, so instead of boring you with more words, I’ll give you a website where you can go ahead and visit. It’s so important to use the right lifting techniques on every exercise so please visit this website to make sure you do each exercise properly. Go Here
If you have any questions or comments about any fitness weightlifting topic, please email me and I’ll try to answer as soon as possible. Don’t be afraid to ask for help, I’m confident that I can answer any of your questions. It doesn’t matter what topic you are having trouble with, I’ll do my best to get you on the right path with fitness weightlifting.
© 2008 copyright http://fitnessweightlifting.blogspot.com/ for fitness weightlifting