An introduction to weight training exercise.
Full Body Weight Training Workout
This 3 day splits hits all your muscles.
Simple 2 day split workout.
Muscle diagrams of the human body.
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Military Strength Training Exercises
Get fighting fit with military exercises.
Strength training is a vital part of fitness. Building muscle is vital for improving athletic performance. It also boosts metabolism which means you burn calories quicker. Weight training routines and bodyweight workouts are provided.
Peter Andre’s 6 pack used to be pretty famous, but then it disappeared for a while along with the rest of him. He has done his first come back tour and now has his own reality TV show (Peter Andre: The Next Chapter), which is a much more tranquil affair without his ex-wife Jordan stealing the show each week. When he appeared on The Jonathan Ross to talk about his album and his tour, he looked in great shape. More importantly,...
Arnold Schwarzenegger was certainly the greatest bodybuilder of his time, and will be remembered as one of the greatest bodybuilders of the 20th Century. His movie career has immortalized his body in a way that no other world class bodybuilder has accomplished. He won the Mr. Olympia 6 years running from 1970, beating Franco Columbu (who Sly Stallone employed for his training) in his final contest of 1975. Here we have 3 weight training plans that Arnold followed at...
Mike Mentzer did not invent High Intensity Weight Training, but he made it popular. During his time in the military, while also doing his bodybuilding training the old fashioned way (very long training sessions with many sets and hundreds of reps) he came across Casey Viator, who was the winner of Mike’s first bodybuilding competition. Mike was shocked when Casey Viator told him that his training sessions only last about half an hour. Viator would train to a very high...
Sylvester Stallone is one of modern cinema’s great action heroes. He first shot to fame in Rocky in 1976, and then continued his success through the Rocky franchise as well as the Rambo series, which started with the drawing of First Blood in 1982. Stallone’s physical appearance altered significantly between his first and second Rambo films, from 1982 to 1985. Sly Stallone actually only started working out for Rambo: First Blood Part II, six weeks before filming started. Mr....
The back is so often neglected. People focus on building biceps, chest and abs, but forget that the back is key to many exercises that help to grow the other target areas. A strong back is essential also to develop a more athletic, functional strength. The back is as important as the core but often neglected. The back contains a group of muscles that support and link the shoulders and spine. There are three main muscle groups in the...
Biceps are possibly the easiest muscle to build and they are rarely concealed under a layer of subcutaneous fat either. Big biceps can be both functional and aesthetic. So, how is it done? What is the best way to beef up you guns? Here we go through some of the basic bicep exercises and then share some insights from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s training and finally take a look at the concentration curl. Bicep Curls These are the standard bicep exercise,...
Push ups (a.k.a. press ups) are one of the core bodyweight exercises. They are often overlooked by people looking to improve strength and conditioning, even though they are the staple exercise in the military and martial arts school. Push ups can strengthen the back, shoulders, triceps and forearms. Push ups are common in both traditional Eastern exercises as well as Western fitness routines.
There are two main Olympic weightlifting exercises; the Clean and Jerk and the Snatch. For most people they will find the clean and jerk the easiest to learn out of the two. Here we describe how to perform the clean and jerk. It is worth noting here that an alternative to the clean and jerk is the clean and press, whereby the weight is lifting in a more controlled manner once on the front of the shoulders. This exercise...
The shoulder shrug is an exercise in weight training. To execute the exercise, the lifter stands erect, hands about shoulder width apart, and raises the shoulders as high as possible, and then lowers them, while not bending the elbows, or moving the body at all. Shoulder shrugs are used to develop the upper trapezius muscle. Shoulder shrugs are generally vertical in relation to the body. Larger gains in strength, endurance and muscle hypertrophy are gained when the exercise is...
Made famous by the likes of Mike Menzter, High Intensity Weight Training takes a different approach to the high rep workouts that were popular before, and still popular today. Here we look at some of the history of HIT, reasons to try it, research concerning its limitations, a few HIT cycles and then Dorian Yates’ HIT routine. This introduction is by no means an exhaustive review of High Intensity Weight Training. It was really made popular by Arthur Jones in the 1970s....
Many people have the misconception that all female bodybuilders are muscle bound, steroid popping Amazons, who look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. There are certainly a small handful of women who will fit into this category and they compete in the elite championships such as the Ms Olympia, however the vast majority of women who are involved in bodybuilding are using it purely for toning the body and for fitness. Pictured here is one of the elite women, Yaxeni Oriquen. Yaxeni...
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