Posts Tagged ‘arm workouts’

Designing Bicep Workouts

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Choosing Your Bicep Workouts

Knowing your ultimate goal will help you choose the best bicep workouts for your body.  Goals can be anything from increasing strength, increasing bicep size, or just toning your muscles.  Remember that the exercises you choose will be different depending on the goals you have.

Strength building exercises focus on heavy weights and usually include explosive movements.  To help build your bicep size you should use relatively heavier weights and have lower repetitions.  If you are going to spend a short amount of time at the gym you may need to choose exercises that give your workouts the maximum workout in a short amount of time.  If you are going to be spending some more time at the gym you can choose from a wider variety of bicep exercises. Make sure to not overestimate your fitness level when you start, no matter what your workout goal is to make sure you prevent injury.

Workout preferences will play a role in how you structure your workout as well. You may choose different exercises if you prefer dumbbells over barbells or if you prefer isolated exercises over compound ones.

Need help with bicep exercises?

Once you have your workout goal and have some exercises make sure you are doing them correct. If you need help with form visit Instructional Fitness.

Arm Workouts

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Arm Workout tips

To build the most muscle in your arms, design your arm workout around the strongest exercises you can do with the maximum amount of weight. Remember to stay hydrated and eat a proper diet. Combining your bicep and tricep exercises can make it easier for you to get your workout done. Instead of breaking it up, do it all at once and save yourself a trip to the gym.

Arm workouts structure

If you are going to combine your tricep and bicep exercises into one workout there are a few ways to structure the workout to make sure you are doing it effectively. Your arm workouts should last no loner than an hour.  Do your triceps first and then don’t do more than 5 sets per muscle. You should rest 1 to 3 minutes in between sets to make sure your muscles are recovered. When combining bicep and tricep exercises into one workout do only one arm workout a week. Do the hardest exercises first so you can get those out of the way and do them effectively before you get tired. Make sure you do a warm up set or two to get the muscles ready for heavier movements. Instructional Fitness can tell you where to find a gym to complete your workouts.  If you need help with exercises see the list of videos to see the proper technique and what exercises can work for you.

Workout Videos

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Workout videos online

For some working out is quite the challenge. It’s hard to get the motivation to get up and go to the gym so workout videos are an excellent solution. Now you don’t even need a TV and DVD player to get in a great workout. All you need is a computer and Internet. Instructional Fitness has videos to help build mass and shape the following areas: chests, legs, back, shoulders, arms, abs. Instructional Fitness even has videos for senior workouts. There are no more excuses for exercising when it’s this easy.

Using Workout Videos

Since you aren’t leaving home to go to do your workout it can be easy to skip it but don’t. Just like with going to the gym have a set schedule to do your workouts using workout videos. Most people will stop by the gym on their way to work or after work. You can do this too. When you get home before you settle down change into workout clothes that you have laid it in front of you and use the videos. Or just lay out your workout clothes at night and then when you seem them first thing in the morning make it motivate you to workout before work.