The Best Pectoral Exercises
Build A Massive Muscular Chest Are your workouts made up of the most effective pectoral exercises for building a thick powerful chest? If you’re not sure, you’re in the right place! Take a look at the chest exercises on this page and start incorporating a few of them into your chest workouts. Not only will each of these pec exercises allow you to gain strength in your upper body, but they will allow you to target your pectoralis major with laser precision. The pectoral exercises that are listed on this page target all parts of your pectorals in a efficient and effective manner, allowing you to get the “most bang for your buck” from your intense chest workouts. If you make these exercises the basis of your chest workouts, you’ll gain both size and strength in your pecs! The Muscles In Your Chest The technical term for the muscles [...]
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Lunge Exercise
The lunge exercise is one of the most effective glute and hamstring exercises you can perform. While thousands of people flock to the hip adductor machines, you just can’t beat a few heavy sets of lunges to set your butt and hamstrings on fire! If you want to build some muscle mass in your legs then lunges are an exercise that should be included in most of your leg workouts. Lunges are also very effective for helping to shape and sculpt the lower body. If you want to burn fat and get sexier and shapelier legs, lunges are an exercise that can help you get there. Women who want to build a sexier lower body should defiantly incorporate lunges into their lower body workouts as this exercise is a proven winner when it comes to shaping, toning and building a better lower body. Ideal Lunge Exercise Form Muscles Used During The Lunge [...]
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How To Perform Leg Presses
Leg presses are an excellent overall leg development exercise that incorporates multiple muscles in the front and back part of your legs. While barbell leg squats are the undisputed king of all free weight leg exercises, leg presses are an excellent alternative for anyone who wants to blast their legs without having to risk any type of loading on their spine. Even though the leg press doesn’t incorporate as many different muscle groups as the squat, it’s still a staple of most serious leg workouts. If you want to include leg presses into your heavy leg workouts, I would recommend fitting them in right after you perform your squats. Typically you can increase the weight a bit (from your squat) and really hammer your legs. This will give you the best of both worlds, a hard hitting squat workout and a few sets of even heavier leg presses. This combination [...]
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Leg Extensions
Leg extensions target the muscles in your quadriceps without incorporating any additional muscle groups. This allows you to provide maxim muscle stimulation to the top part of your legs without allowing dominant muscle groups to take over and short circuit your quad workouts. The only thing that you really need to be careful with when you are performing leg extensions is to make sure and train with a reasonable weight. This is not one of those exercises that you can pile the weight on and expect to walk away unscathed. Based on my experiences, if you try to perform leg extensions with a weight that is just too heavy, you will injure yourself…so take it easy! Ideal Leg Extensions Form Muscles Used During Leg Extensions Target Body Part: Legs Primary Muscles: Rectus Femoris, Vastus Lateralis, Vastus Medialis, Vastus Intermedius, Basically all of the muscles of the Quadriceps! Secondary Muscles: None Starting Position: Sit [...]
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How To Perform Leg Curls
Leg curls are one of the most effective exercises for isolating the muscles of the hamstring area. While heavy deadlifts and stiff legged deadlifts are more effective at stimulating overall leg development, leg curls allow you to zone in on the back part of your legs with laser precision. While a many of the top fitness trainers are shying away from machine based exercises, I don’t know of any trainers who don’t recommend leg curls for hamstring development. When performing leg curls, it’s a good idea to learn how to control the weight through a complete range of motion is a steady fashion rather than slamming the weights up and down as fast as possible. This is the most effective way to stimulate new muscle growth a leg curl machine. Ideal Leg Curls Form Muscles Used During Leg Curls Target Body Part: Legs Primary Muscles: Biceps Femoris Long & Short Head, Semitendinosus, [...]
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Lat Pulldowns
Lat pulldowns are one of the only machine based exercises that I actually perform on a regular basis. Due to the fact that the lat pulldown machine anchors your lower body in place during this exercise, you are able to focus the full brunt of the weight on the upper portion of your latissimus dorsi by focusing on squeezing your lats at the bottom of the movement. A lot of people still perform lat pulldowns behind their head but I strongly discourage that because in my opinion, the risk of a serious shoulder injury simply outweighs any potential muscle stimulation that you may receive by performing the exercise this way. Not only that, but lat pulldowns behind your head do not allow you to perform this movement with as heavy a weight as a simple front pulldown does. Ideal Lat Pulldown Form Muscles Used During The Bent Over Row Target Body [...]
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Dumbbell Lateral Raise
The lateral raise is a great movement to add to your shoulder workouts because it compliments the hard and heavy shoulder presses well by allowing for deltoid stimulation without an emphasis on extremely heavy weights. The lateral raise target your posterior, anterior and middle deltoid at the same time making is a very complete shoulder building exercise, but you’ve got to lower the weight a bit in order to maintain strict muscle building form. You’ve also got to be careful to use proper form why performing lateral raises because it’s easy to injure yourself if you’re not careful – so read through the exercise demonstration and tips on this page before adding lateral raises to your shoulder blasting workouts. I personally like to finish off most of my shoulder workouts with a few sets of moderately heavy dumbbell lateral raises in the 10 - 15 repetition range. It forces your [...]
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How To Perform The Incline Press
The incline press is one of the classic chest building exercises. Focusing primarily on the upper portion of the pectoralis major, the incline press allows you to train with heavy weights while targeting your pecs from a different angle than the flat bench press. I almost always include some variation of the incline press into my chest workouts. It easily ties in the muscles of your chest and shoulders and allows you to really hammer your upper body. Muscles Used During The Incline Press Target Body Part: Chest, Shoulders Primary Muscles: Anterior and Medial Deltoid, Pectorals Secondary Muscles: Rhomboids, Rotator Cuff, Posterior Deltoids (delts), Triceps, Extensors, Serratus Anterior Starting Position: Sit on an incline bench (set to a 45 – 60 degree angle). Grab the barbell with an overhand grip that’s just slightly wider than shoulder width. Make sure to completely wrap your thumbs around the bar in order [...]
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How To Perform The Hammer Curl
The hammer curl is basically just a variation of a standing dumbbell curl where you hold your palms facing in towards your body while you curl the weight up towards your shoulder rather than holding your palms facing up. This small change in hand position allows you to activate the muscles in your forearm while you train your biceps at the same time. While many bodybuilders and fitness buffs completely overlook the hammer curl and jump into bicep workouts that incorporate the more traditional bicep exercises, the hammer curl is a great way to stimulate some muscle growth in your fore arms and biceps at the same time. In fact, hammer curls are know as the single most effective exercise for stimulating the brachioradialis (one of the main muscles in your forearm). Another great benefit to working the hammer curl into your bicep workout from time to time, is that [...]
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