The importance of a powerful looking chest is
undeniable in the Men's Physique division. All body parts are important, but few draw the atttention on the stage like an awesome chest. Are you looking to improve yours?
Like I mentioned in my last article I like to switch my workouts up all the time. Here is my current chest workout:
Incline dumbbell press 8-12 reps, 4 sets
Cable cross over 12-15 reps, 3 sets...
One of the things I like to do with my workouts is
continuously change them up to keep the muscles shocked. With any weight lifting program the body will get adjusted to it. One of the many things I will do from time to time is throw on supersets. There are many ways to do this. Here is one example of my arm workout with supersets.
Tri Push Downs (Cable machine) Superset with Rope push downs
Scull Crushers Superset with Close Grip presses...
There are people on both sides of the fence when it
comes to Chiropractic care. The following is the opinion of MP Contributor Tim Staggs...
One of the many things I do for my health on a weekly basis is to visit my chiropractor. Chiropractic care is crucial to good health in my opinion. Chiropractic treatment techniques involves manual therapy, including manipulation of the spine, and other joints. Traditional chiropractic assumes that a vertebral subluxation interferes with the body's innate intelligence. In basic terms if the nerves running down your spine are not working properly due to the spine being out of place your body won’t be functioning at its highest level. Your nervous system is responsible for all your body’s functions. Not only is this important for general health and proper organ function, but making sure you’re building muscle effectively and symmetrically...
When you really think about weight training,.JPG)
it all comes down to those last 2-3 reps. For most people that work out with weights they have 2 major goals in mind to increase their muscle size and strength. In order to achieve these goals you have to be willing to push your muscles further than they have gone before, in order to force them to grow and adapt to the demands you are placing on them. Sure there are lots of techniques to confuse the muscles and numerous different exercises to implement in order to work them from every possible angle, but in the end it still all comes down to those last 2-3 reps...
Here is a great back routine I did this past week.
The focus is on the whole back. Remember to be slow and controlled through all of your movements for maximum results!
Perform 3 sets of 8-15 reps of each exercise. In your last set, the weight should be intense enough that you are struggling for your desired number. Mind over matter! For an advanced burnout, do a drop-set the 3rd set of each exercise...
For those who want to improve their overall muscular and aesthetic look, try performing movements that you are not used to performing. The act of recruiting new muscles that you aren't used to using will not only help improve performance, but it will develop certain muscles that you you're not used to seeing. This may be because you are only used to pressing, curling, and calf raises for your legs. Well, all that is fine and dandy, but what about the plantar flexion involved from grabbing the pavement on the balls of your feet and pulling as you stride. Think about all of the lower calf muscles like the soleus and the peroneals on the sides of the calf that activate during these movements. Or, perhaps, the classic run on Venice Beach after a night of eating those multi grains. The grabbing of the sand; the use of your arms to pull; the abdominal control: these are all things that one can experience when trying new forms of exercise.
I often am in the gym looking around, especially viewing things from a trainer's perspective...so many exercises for the core/midsection that people are doing TOTALLY wrong and can actually make the physique look worse. Here I am going to break down a few of the exercises that are commonly butchered at the gym, making me grimace and just shake my head in dissatisfaction.
In no specific order:
muscle tissue is the lack of a full eccentric and concentric contractions of the muscle. The Concentric contraction or phase is noted as the range of motion that shortens the muscle fibers of a muscle. In other words it is the final squeeze of the muscle. The eccentric contraction or phase is the range of motion that lengthens the muscle fibers of a muscle. For example, the upward squeezing phase of a bicep curl would be termed as a concentric contraction and the decent of a bicep curl is known as the eccentric contraction...
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