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Benefits of Exercise: Tips for a Successful Fitness Plan
Setting your fitness Goals Are you as strong, flexible, and physically fit as you would like to be? If you are, good for you. However, if you want to make some improvements, here’s one piece of advice: Try to improve a little bit at a time. The only way to walk a mile is to [...]
Get Fit Tip: Bike Path
Cycling is a wonderful way to get and stay fit without injury Across the country, people are tuning up their old bicycles or buying new ones to get around town and run errands. And why not? Bicycling is inexpensive, fun and offers numerous health benefits. Like walking and jogging, bicycling is a...
Examining Tools of the Weight Training Trade
No question: The most intimidating thing about weight training is the equipment. You can examine a weight machine for half an hour — looking it up and down, walking circles around it, touching it, prodding it, even reading the instructional plaque posted on the frame
Don’t Be Afraid of Weight Machines!
Attach a few bars onto a large metal frame, add a cable and a pulley or two, weld a seat and a few pads onto your creation, and presto! a weight machine is born. Of course, weight lifting machines are a bit more sophisticated than this definition suggests. Keep reading to find out more.
Using a Weight Bench
A weight bench is what you may expect: a sturdy, padded bench that you lie, sit, or kneel on to lift weights. To get the most out of free weights, benches are a must.
Weight Training – Tracking Your Progress
You may find that recording your workout details increases your motivation and helps you keep up with your workout program. Try logging your workouts in a notebook or weight training diary to see if this method works for you.
Previewing Weight Routine Essentials
Weight Training, If an orchestra were to play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons minus the string section, the piece would lack a certain vitality and depth. Likewise, if you leave out a key element of your weight workout, you may end up with disappointing results. So follow the guidelines in this section.
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.
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 ...
