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Bench Press For lifters looking to create the classic "He-Man" physique, the single most important upper body workout is the bench press. The bench press builds the upper arm, chest, and shoulders. The muscles here have a great impact on making it look like you posses great strength, which is an important factor for many lifters. This workout is also one of the easiest lifts, since you are lying down on a static bench that prevents most unnecessary movement. To

Weight Lifting and Its Effects on Basketball Players Ten people gather around a center point waiting as two giants square off between one another, clashing for the most valuable prize of the battle ahead: the basketball. A game of strategy and high demands, basketball calls on both the body and the mind in harmony in order to secure a victory. It calls on your body in many ways that will strip you of energy unlike any other sport. Additionally, the game will demand a high intelligence and acumen

As I looked at the barbell stacked with two 45 lbs plates on both sides, I questioned my own ability, and think to myself there is no way in hell I am able to lift this without injuring myself. At young age, I was wondering on how I could become the alpha male against all of the other kids in my class. I, the quiet and chubby youngster stood no chance against the other forces, I semi-decent at basketball, but other than that I stood no chance against all of the others. I started weightlifting to

There are three universal lifting exercises which nearly every person has partial knowledge of what they are and do for your body; those being the bench, squat and deadlift. At all lifting levels, people attempt these three exercises, and a majority of participants have incorrect technique which could easily harm themselves. Numerous people do not have a solid idea as to why or which type of exercise they should be doing that will give the results they are looking for. Specifically, for the deadlift

What Exercises Do You Need for a Men's Bodybuilding Workout Program? By Steve Knorr | Submitted On April 25, 2012 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon Share this article on Delicious Share this article on Digg Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Expert Author Steve Knorr Coming up with a good men's

“Press”. There are a lot of accomplishment that you have in weightlifting. You have a lot of accomplishments that you have to achieve to be great at it. It's not something you do just for fun, you have to put your passion in it. It made me accomplish a lot of things but the main one was with stress and my anger. Before I started weightlifting I was the girl that would always walk around school quiet and full of anger, because I always had an attitude with someone or something that I did wrong. I

I come to a squealing halt as I throw my white Civic Si into first gear and hop out of the parking spot between the gold Chevy Tahoe and the black Jeep Wrangler. Grabbing my gym bag from the trunk, I march under the covered patio for the door of Mountainside Fitness to start my daily ritual. Walking through the doors the smell of sweat, hard work and cheap coffee attacks my senses. Lifting weights has been my place of refuge for almost two years now. Albeit I have gotten into pretty decent shape

Natural Bodybuilding: Difference between a bodybuilder and a physique competitor, anyone who trains with weights is building their body and is therefore a bodybuilder. There are two big reasons why I’m now proud to answer that question with Of course, I’m a bodybuilder". The first is I’m much more secure with who I am and what I represent. A Look At Current Natural Bodybuilding Champions & Pros. Let's take a look at current elite level bodybuilders and see how they stack up compared to predicted

Some people like to use overhand monkey grip To hold the bar with the thumb on the same side as the other fingers rather than grasp around the bar. This is a bad idea for two reasons. When bench pressing, you're forced to tilt your hand back all the way to avoid having the bar roll out of your palm and decapitate you. Unfortunately, this means you'll have bone pressing against bone in your hand/upper arm, which can become quite painful if you make it a habit. Secondly, there's that tiny detail

This intervention has to deal with trying to increase my total weight and number of repetitions for weight lifting. The main problem I have been having, mostly with my bench press, has to do with being stuck at one weight at times and not being able to increase the maximum lift or get any more reps out of the workout. I have tried to "shock my system" by increasing the weights to a weight that I could only do one or two times. I have also tried building up my endurance through using less