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Weight Training Exercises to Tone Your Muscle

Sad as it may seem, cardio training exercises are not enough for you to lose weight. You have to combine it with weight training exercises so that you do not end up with flabby areas. Weight training exercises are used to tone and strengthen your muscles. Needless to say, they go hand in hand with cardio training.

However, unlike cardio exercises that work for the whole body, weight training seems to have more focus. There are specific strength training exercises for a specific part of the body. The key here is to train each part of the body once or twice a week. You have to let your muscles recover from stress and fatigue, since muscle gains are at its peak during the recovery period.

For your chest, you can exercise with a flat or inclined bench press. You can either use dumbbells or a bar in this exercise. This will definitely strengthen your pectoral muscles. If you want to focus on your shoulders, try the seated press, dumbbell lateral raises, and bent over. The muscles in your shoulders are the easiest ones to exercise, so you may want to try having heavier dumbbells when you exercise them.

Your arm exercises can be further subdivided into biceps and triceps exercises. For your biceps, you can try hammer curls, standing straight bar, and cable curls, while you can try skull crushers, cable triceps, and bench press for your triceps.

As for your back, exercises you can do include lower back extension, bent over back rows, and dead lifts. Be careful of weight bearing back exercises because improper execution can lead to spinal injuries. Your legs can use leg press, hack squats, lunges, and dead lifts.

Probably the hardest part to exercise is your abdominal muscles. For this, you can try cable, inclined bench, stability ball, and lying crunches, plus leg raises.

 

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