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The horizontal bar is one of the most ancient exercise implements in the world because despite its simplicity offers great benefits if you follow a constant training. The simple act of raising the self weight of the body is an excellent way to develop strength in the upper body, requiring simple equipment, cheap and very easy to install and maintain.

Bar exercises

So here are we bring you some bar exercises. If they do not have a bar available seek any existing structure that suits your needs and easy reach.

They must be completely sure that the bar is installed in a solid, since it will support the weight of your body and should not transfer or tear and could suffer serious injury. The bar should have sufficient space to allow lifting the weight of the body to the chin. The exercise bar will significantly improve your performance in any sport that requires physical strength of the upper body.

Before performing any exercise must be made ​​warm and stretch to prevent tearing. The warming should take about 5 minutes while stretching should not require more than 10. Remember that this is an essential stage of the exercise and should not be ignored under any circumstances. Read the rest of this entry »

The concentration curl is an important exercise in fitness and bodybuilding used to increase the mass of the biceps. Although the triceps is more important in most sports, it is necessary to balance strong biceps muscle development and strength of both sides of the arm.

Concentration Curl

It also is a very safe exercise, as the sitting position prevents rocking and a possible arching back, so it is an exercise recommended for people with back problems.

Completion:

  • To seat sideways on the edge of a horizontal bank, with the legs separated in an angle of 90º.
  • To start working with right biceps, lean forward and rest your elbow or hand on the left thigh or hip. Place your right triceps on the inside of the left leg.
  • Grab a dumbbell in your right hand palm up and begins with the elbow slightly bent.

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What should we do to have some abdominal perfect, well defined, and marked? Possibly it is the most common question in all forums fitness and bodybuilding. But usually the response is often incomplete. It usually indicates that you must perform exercises to “dry out” the abs, but everyone knows that’s not enough.

The work of the abdominal muscle

The regime:

The regime food is the most important parameter. Begin by reducing inputs calorie day. If you eat 2000 calories a day, try to drop until 1700, but doing the best possible way is to limit the fat and sugar, rather than the proteins. You reduce the sugars, and not the complex carbohydrate.

In any case, we should not lose an extreme form of contributions calories. Although in the short term appear more effective, eventually lose mass muscle, and promotes the yoyo effect, as well as storage fat.

A simple way to reduce calories is to avoid drinking. Replace all that drink usually by water. In this way are about 200 or 300 calories which vanish with hardly give you realize. Read the rest of this entry »

The system using this little device is simple to use and also very effective because it is based on the principle of static tension. In this way, you train the body with a simple movement, while protecting the back. You take no risk using the Fitness Pump. For ease of use, the manufacturer has placed a handles covered with foam.

fitness pump

Adjustable Handles

To avoid crushing the chest, a tray has been placed on the apparatus. The product weighs 7.5 kg and hardly takes up room in the house. It can be stored in the cabinet without problems. Having this piece of fitness equipment simply means that you no longer need to spend a fortune at the gym. After half an hour of jogging in the park, for example, the Fitness Pump takes over to define the muscles. Read the rest of this entry »

In the Gym

Home training is very good, but if you’re training progress where others do. The atmosphere of being surrounded by people with the same objective helps to train harder and eliminates the laziness of exercise.

Little by Little

Never start with the maximum weight. Warm up your muscles with light sets to prepare for exercise.

muscle training tips

Good Performance

Do not hit your body pulls to lift the weight, if you do it is because it is too heavy for you and you could injure yourself, you do the repetitions in a controlled manner and with a uniform rate.

Feel

Try to feel muscular congestion in the area you’re working by the end of training that muscle.

In Progress

Train with progression. Each exercise should be a little more weight than before.

Strong Legs

Work your legs with energy; it is the largest muscle group and strong. Stimulate the growth of the whole muscular system.

Series

As a general rule you should not do less than 3 nor more than 6 series for the same exercise, but the frequency varies, the number of sets and repetitions for the muscle does not get used. Read the rest of this entry »

We all want to have a nice ass, and we would like the muscles of the buttocks were more firm. For this there is no miracle solutions, and try to replace fat with muscle, playing sports regularly, and maintaining a power balance. Combining sports and good food is the best method to develop the muscles of the buttocks.

exercises for muscles of the buttocks

Sport

To have a body perfect, it is necessary to practice sport and make some specific exercises to skin the buttocks.

Some examples of sports those are good for developing the muscles of the buttocks:

The aqua (muscle mass and drainage):

  • Swimming.
  • The dance.
  • The step and elliptical.

You can also do some exercises at home, ideally, practicing a workout every other day, gradually increasing the difficulty.

Here are two exercises that can be performed easily at home:

Buttocks on the back

The position: on the back straight, knees bent, feet apart on the floor in line with the hip. The arms are held straight along the body and the palms are placed down. Read the rest of this entry »

In terms of technology, there are exercises and equipment fitness very effective in working muscles of the thighs and buttocks. It is the stepper that allows rapid perspiration after exercise. There is also elliptical, which focuses on a work smoother, and where the working muscle is slower.

buttock equipement

Indeed, there are increasingly those who want to have a perfect body, but without being life in the attempt. This is the reason why there are tools and exercises that can enable the work of the muscles in the home, without having to go to a gym or specialized center.

The practice of exercises for abs and buttocks is effective because it allows one to focus on work and tone located a body part without having to lose weight necessarily. The abdominal and gluteal sessions should be performed twice or three times a week, with an average of 40 minutes, for greater efficiency. It is important not to forget the warm-up before any exercise, in order to avoid the stiffness and aches of muscle that may discourage the end. Read the rest of this entry »

Learn how to be ready for skiing in autumn and you not injuries in winter.

alpine skiing

  • For the limited range of movement, muscle contraction run virtually static called “isometric”.
  • This type of muscle contraction maintained in a very small range produces the sensation of “burning” muscle that can experience prolonged declines in the classic position where you can adopt the “schuss”.
  • The exercise for this muscle contraction, sit kept series on a wall or fitness-ball, specific exercises represents this gesture characteristic of downhill skiing.
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This exercise for the muscles abs, called cadence, is an excellent exercise for abdominal muscles below the navel, the famous belly.

Bicycle Crunches

Position:

  • Laying on the floor on your back with legs spread and arms behind your head.
  • Head and shoulder slightly raised, relaxed neck.
  • Legs slightly raised.
  • Keep the strained abdominal muscles.

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Muscle hypertrophy describes muscle growth, but not the muscle increase. Muscle growth is achieved through specific training or artificially by the intake of anabolic hormones.

Muscle hypertrophy

Muscle hypertrophy, that is, enlargement of the muscle cross-section caused by thick growth of muscle fibers. Especially good results from the increase observed when bodybuilders.

Muscle hypertrophy: legally and illegally
Muscle fibers can only be thicker in a legal manner when they are stressed beyond their normal performance level beyond. Targeted muscle training this is called, with a growth stimulus is triggered, which in turn causes an increased protein deposition. Read the rest of this entry »