Posts Tagged “Exercise”

How To Build Forearm Muscle

So you wanna learn how to build forearm muscle.Building forearm muscle is pretty simple. There are a few basic exercises that you use to train them: wrist curls and reverse wrist curls.

Wrist curls work the underside of the forearm which is the area seen when your arms are in supine position. You work the outside of your forearm, the area seen in the prone position by executing reverse wrist curls.
It can be best to perform wrist curls with dumbbells instead of a barbell, so that you ca work one wrist at a time.

Put weight onto the dumbbell and then, place your arm on either a flat bench, or your thigh with your wrist hanging over the edge with the palm facing up and the dumbbell in your hand. Keep your forearm still and curl the weight upwards as far as you can while maintaining a flat, still forearm.

February 9, 2011 Posted Under: Exercise   Read More

Top 3 Chest Exercises Using Dumbbells

Do you want to improve your chest muscles? You can work out your chest at home with a simple pair of dumbbells. Having a nice set of chest muscles is good especially if you want to eliminate the extra fat deposits that make your figure effeminate. People with gynecomastia – the condition which gives men the appearance of having small breasts – are commonly looking for exercises to replace their chest fat with muscle. Well, here are three chest exercises that uses dumbbells.

January 11, 2011 Posted Under: Exercise   Read More

Five Components of Physical Fitness

Physical fitness is the ability to function effectively throughout your workday, perform your usual other activities and still have enough energy left over to handle any extra stresses or emergencies which may arise.

The components of physical fitness are:

* Cardiorespiratory (CR) endurance – the efficiency with which the body delivers oxygen and nutrients needed for muscular activity and transports waste products from the cells.
* Muscular strength – the greatest amount of force a muscle or muscle group can exert in a single effort.
* Muscular endurance – the ability of a muscle or muscle group to perform repeated movements with a sub-maximal force for extended periods of times.

January 3, 2011 Posted Under: Exercise   Read More
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