Upper Arm Exercises

Posted under Arm Workouts, Upper Arm Exercises by Mike on Monday 14 September 2009 at 11:27 am

If you decided finally to start working out and building muscles, let me help you by giving you best upper arm exercises and tips for beginners. This type of exercises I will show you are the ones you can start with and by doing them your upper arm muscles will get bigger and more toned.

I hope you already know something about nutrition which is usually more important than workout. If you will follow this exercises I will show you, I hope you will also follow a nutrition program for muscle building. With both you will see progress much, much faster that is why it is viral to follow both.

Ok, lets start with first things first. Upper arm muscles include biceps and triceps and also deltoid. If you want to get a bigger upper arm you will need to work on all three muscle categories I told you about. Most of bodybuilders and also beginners in GYM have a program which they follow.

You need to work on triceps and bicep muscle  the same workout day. Doing both muscles 1-2 times per week is enough. On workout day, you need to have 4 different exercises for both bicep and triceps with 3-4 routines of 12-8 reps. This is a most common workout that you should follow, now lets see which are the best upper arm exercises for triceps, bicep and deltoid you should practice.

Best Bicep Exercises

  1. Barbell Curl - Do 4 routines of 12-8 reps. Have 1 minute rest between each routine.
  2. Dumbbell Curl - Do 3-4 routines of 14-10 reps. Have 1.30 minute rest.
  3. Barbell Preacher Curl - Do 4 routines of 12-6 reps.
  4. Dumbbell Concentration Curl - Do 3 routines of 15-10 reps. Have 30 seconds rest.

Best Triceps Exercises

  1. Close Grip Bench Press - Do 4 routines of 12-8 reps.
  2. Lying Triceps Extension - Do 3-4 routines of 12-8 reps.
  3. Incline Triceps Extension - Do 3 routines of 15-10 reps.
  4. Dumbbell Kickback - Do 3-4 routines of 12-8 reps.

Best Deltoid Exercises

  1. Barbell Upright Row - Do 3-4 routines of 12-8 reps.
  2. Dumbbell Lying Lateral Raise - Do 3 routines of 15-10 reps.
  3. Dumbbell Lateral Row - Do 3-4 routines of 15-10 reps.

Triceps Workouts

Posted under Arm Workouts, Triceps Workouts by Mike on Friday 12 June 2009 at 1:07 pm

Many people have a disbelief that the triceps muscle can be obtained by the chest exercise but it is not so because the exercise for the chest muscles have nothing to do with the triceps. The triceps are not built by the chest exercise and so the have to give away with this type of thinking. To build the triceps some specially designed work outs has to be done so that these muscles are developed. While going for the triceps muscles’ training certain things has to be kept in mind like the weight should be equal in both the hands or else there will be an imbalance between the two powers and the pumping of the two hands.

Triceps Exercises
There are some exercises that can be done in order to improve the triceps but before doing the exercises the triceps has to be warmed and then the exercises should be performed. The warming up of the triceps protects them from being strained or some other damages.

Closed grip pushdowns
This exercised is very effective as it helps to develop the triceps muscle as it puts a direct pressure on the triceps and it also help by gaining the mass of the triceps. It has many types of risk and so it should only be done under proper guidance. This can be repeated for two to three sets and each set comprising of ten to twelve repetitions.

Here are some of triceps workouts that you can start doing right now before continuing on more advanced ones:

Closed grip bench press
The closed grip bench press is another effective way to shape the triceps. It also gives a direct pressure on the triceps muscles. It can be easily felt in the triceps muscles as there is a pain evolved in the muscles due to the stress it gets by doing this exercise. This exercise is done with a bar and some weight is put on the bar and then the bar is pulled down towards the forehead. This exercise has to be done for ten to twelve times in three sets to get the fruitful result. This exercise adds mass to the triceps to a large extent and helps in building the triceps muscles.

Parallel bar dips
This is the most effective way of developing the triceps muscles as it acts on all the three groups of muscles and so it can be tried more often so that the muscles are developed quickly and more effectively. It is very easy to do as you need only two parallel bars for the working out of this exercise. For the execution of the exercise you are required to lean on the bars and move upwards by transferring the weight of the body on the arms and bending the elbow drop backwards and when the feet touches the ground again repeat the earlier procedure. This exercise can be done for ten to twelve repetitions in three sets.

The development of the muscles is not a speedy process and so it has to be kept in mind and the number of times it is said to be performed should not be exceeded or else it might result in the break down of the body.


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