Showing posts with label biceps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biceps. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

DIPS EXERCISE FOR BULKY CHEST




CHEST DIPS




       PRIMARY TARGET : CHEST

         OTHER MUSCLES : SHOULDERS,TRICEPS





1.   Mount yourself on a wide dip bar (as shown).

2.   Make a firm  grip on the dip bar with both the hands.

3.   In the starting position, with your arms strength pick your body up in such a manner that your arms are fully extended and locked at the top.

4.   Now, slowly lower down your body by bending arms and allowing elbows to flare out to sides, as you inhale.

5.   Pause for a second, hold yourself deep in the maximum stretching position and squeeze your chest here.

6.   Return back to the starting position slowly as you exhale.

7.   Repeat as many times as recommended.











       TIPS:



Ø If you find it difficult,then take help from a spotter to hold your legs, during the upward movement of your torso.

Ø During the exercise, torso should be leaned forward.

Ø  Slightly bend your hips and knees during the exercise.

Ø Make a full control on your body during the exercise.

Ø For the sake of variation, you can do this exercise by using the weight belt to add up  weight plates or placing the dumbbell between your ankles.

Ø Pace, while doing the exercise must be slow or medium.






Monday, 2 July 2012

PUSH-UPS (CHAIR WIDTH) FOR CHEST



CHAIR WIDTH PUSH UPS





      PRIMARY TARGET : CHEST

        OTHER MUSCLES  : SHOULDERS,TRICEPS





1.   Take a chair or a firm steel frame (as shown above) which is strong enough to hold your body weight.

2.   Keep your feet together on the floor and palms are on the steel frame/chair, at shoulder width apart.

3.   With your hands on the frame, go as deep towards the floor as you can, while inhaling. This is very effective for your front deltoid.

4.   Pause for a second in this position and Feel the stretching in your shoulder and chest muscles.

5.   Now, pull your torso up by using the strength of your arms and toes, as you exhale.

6.   Repeat as many times as recommended.
  






TIPS:



Ø To make this work out more effective for different muscles of chest, just decrease/increase the distance between your hands or decrease/increase elevation of the chair.

Ø Changing the distance between your hands, help you to target different chest muscles, a little differently with every single centimeter variation.

Ø Make a full control on your body during the exercise.

Ø For the sake of variation, you can do this exercise by loading your back.

Ø Pace, while doing the exercise must be slow or medium.










Thursday, 28 June 2012

SHOULDERS UPRIGHT ROW WITH DUMBELLS




 DUMBELLS UPRIGHT ROW





     PRIMARY TARGET: SHOULDER MUSCLES

      OTHER MUSCLES : TRAPEZIUS,BICEPS


   
1.   Hold the dumbells in both the hands and hold them firmly.

2.   The dumbells should be rested on the front side of your thighs with the palm of your hands facing your thighs.

3.   Pull the dumbells to  your neck until they are nearly in line with your chin, with elbows leading, while exhaling out.

4.   The dumbells should be closed to the body as you move them up.


5.   Allow wrists to flex as dumbells rises.


6.   Pause for a second in this position and feel the contraction in the shoulder.

7.   Lower the dumbells back down slowly to the starting position, while inhaling.

8.   Repeat as many times as recommended .




TIPS:


Ø Lift as much weight as you can do with smooth form. As too much weight leads to a bad form.

Ø This exercise  can also be performed with single-alternate dumbbell raises or using an e-z bar, cables and exercise band.

Ø Be careful ,while doing this exercise, as the upright row is one among the big reasons for shoulders and back injuries.

Ø Pace, while doing the exercise must be slow or medium.

Ø Your elbows should drive the motion. While doing this exercise.

Ø  Your elbow must always be higher than your forearm.






Saturday, 23 June 2012

SHOULDER MUSCLES ANATOMY


SHOULDER ANATOMY




Shoulder muscles can be divided into 3 separate muscles

Ø The Anterior Deltoid

Ø The Middle Deltoid

Ø The Back Deltoid




THE ANTERIOR DELTOID


Targeting  the anterior or FRONT DELTOID. The frontal deltoid forms the roundness of the shoulder giving a square shape when enlarged. The anterior is the largest and most visible of the three deltoid muscles.




THE MIDDLE DELTOID




This is the most important to work for large and broad shoulders. The LATERAL DELTOID needs to "outsize" the anterior and the back deltoids. It needs to stick out and protrude beyond the other two, forming a very nice rounded shoulder.




THE BACK DELTOID




The POSTERIOR DELTOID  or rear deltoid is the smallest of the three, but from a side profile, it fills in the roundness and gives the shoulder a good shape, strength and contour.

When training the shoulders, it is important to keep in mind the three distinct muscle groups of the shoulders when choosing your routines, so that it can provide worth full results for all of them. Often people can get stuck on a routine because they seem to find they enjoy one movement and which results into slow  gains.


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Saturday, 9 June 2012

TOP IMPRESSIVE PHYSIQUES



WORLD TOP IMPRESSIVE PHYSIQUES
 

Serge Nubret

From the front, Serge Nubret had one of the most aesthetically pleasing physiques ever and his chest was a key factor in this assessment. The man who finished second in the 1973 Mr. Olympia lacked the pec thickness of others in our top, and yet his perfectly sculpted chest seemed to have been meticulously carved from  marble.

Franco Columbo


 Although Columbu stands only 5’5″, his pecs were not only stupendously thick, but, unlike others of his stature, they were also large from top to bottom and side to side, and they could have looked at home on 6’5″ Lou Ferrigno. Their most unique quality was the unparalleled cleft that segregated the upper region from the rest, as if the upper pecs were separate muscles (they’re not).
The two-time Mr. O (1976, ’81) attributes most of his size to barbell presses (flat and incline) and dips.



Ronnie Coleman


Two big reasons why Coleman will be trying for Sandow number nine on September 30 are his left and right pectorals. Throughout his reign atop the bodybuilding world, few challengers have been able to hang when he puffs up his pecs during side shots or when he induces a flurry of ridges by crunching out most-musculars.
Coleman goes as heavy as possible for 10-12 reps per set, and he built his chest primarily with barbell and dumbbell presses.


Markus Ruhl


The antithesis to Nubret is Germany’s Ruhl, for there’s nothing artful about Ruhl’s physique. It’s scary big and never more so than when he’s crushing most-musculars and his pecs are redolent of planets colliding.
Ruhl, who has won two IFBB pro shows, relies primarily on machine presses in his current chest training.




JAY CUTLER


While Jay Cutler has the most dominant physique on the planet in today's times, it does not go without saying that a large part of that is because of mass rather than an aesthetically pleasing physique. "The gift", on the other hand, has a near-perfect structure of huge delts, big arms, a tiny waist, and a chiseled midsection.
  
PHILL HEATH


The former D1 Basketball player has transferred his hard work and self-discipline into the sport of bodybuilding and has received plenty of accolades. In his rookie debut at the Olympia, he finished an impressive top 3 finish. If not for a stomach virus within 24 hours of the 2009 Olympia, Heath might have won it for coming in with such great conditioning and detail. Looking to rebound off of a 2010 second place finish at the incumbent-heavy Olympia, Heath is looking to take the reign from Jay Cutler to be the next multi-year winner.


Dexter Jackson


 Finally got his taste at history winning the Olympia in 2008 after finishing in the top 4 for years on end. Nicknamed "The Blade" for his razor sharp cuts, Dexter Jackson has the deepest set of abs in bodybuilding. He is the most conditioned athlete of all time in this sport, always coming in with razor sharp cuts.


Flex Wheeler


The biggest snub of all time, Kenneth "Flex" Wheeler racked up an amazing 17 professional titles yet he never won the Sandow, placing just behind the Olympia champs a total of three times. Knowledgeable bodybuilding fans consider Flex to be the best of the best not only for aesthetic purposes, but also the best there ever was. If you lined up all the pro bodybuilders from all the different eras and put them all in one room, you would be very hard pressed to not pick Flex as having the greatest body. He was everything bodybuilding represented: size and detail with very few weaknesses.


ARNOLD


Here are a multitude of ways to assess Schwarzenegger California governor, superstar actor, business magnate and seven-time Mr. O but in evaluating his chest in the first half of the ’70s, his pecs were thick, broad and proportionately developed from top to bottom.
He favored relatively high volume, low to moderate reps and free-weight basics.




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