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Getting Comfortable with Free Weights
Free weights are weights, such as barbells or dumbbells, that aren’t attached to any pulleys, chains, or other machinery and are raised and lowered by the use of your hands and arms. Free weights consist of metal bars with weighted plates welded or clipped on the ends.
Testing Your Strength and Endurance
When you start an exercise program, you need to test more than the strength of your muscles. It’s also important to evaluate your cardiovascular fitness (on a stationary bike or treadmill, for example) as well as your flexibility.
Organizing Your Long-Term Weight Training
Weight Training, Each period has a different theme. For example, one month you may use weight machines, and the next month you may switch to dumbbells and barbells. Or you can change the number of sets, repetitions, and exercises you perform from one period to the next.
Weight Training – Getting Acquainted with Sets
Weight Training, Beginners should start with one set for each of the major muscle groups listed under “Previewing Weight Routine Essentials: Working all of your major muscle groups.” That’s roughly 11 sets per workout.
Putting Your Mind into Your Muscle
Studies also show that psyching up before you perform a weight training exercise can improve performance for people with at least one year of training experience. Psyching up strategies include the use of imagery, positive self-talk, affirmations, and focusing attention.
Common Weight Training Injuries
Accidents happen, even to careful lifters. So, here’s a primer on weight training injuries in case you do run into one. When you strain or pull a muscle, you actually overstretch or tear the tendon, the tough, cordlike tissue at the end of the muscle where the muscle tapers off and attaches to ...
Weight Lifting and The Art of Spotting
A spotter is someone who stands close by you when you’re lifting weights. This person is ready to grab your weights in case your muscles give out. The spotter can be your lifting partner that you go to the gym with or a stranger in the gym that you enlist for one or two exercises. [...]
Weight Training- Understanding Repetition’s
Weight Training, The number of repetitions, or reps, you perform matters a lot. In general, if your goal is to build the largest, strongest muscles that your genetic makeup allows, perform relatively few repetitions, about four to six (perhaps even as few as one to two).
Choosing Your Training Equipment
Choosing Your Training Equipment: In fitness magazines, health clubs, and videos or DVDs, you often hear weight equipment referred to as resistance equipment. We hate to clutter your brain with jargon right off the bat, but resistance is a word you need to know.
Focusing On The CORE Of The Problem
You hear it all the time… “Keep your core tight, make sure your core is strong, this exercise focuses on your core,” what does that all mean? Lets break it down and understand it, what, and more importantly why the ‘core’ muscles of your body are so important. In the most basic terms your body [...
