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Is this a good weight lifting routine for a 13 year old?
Hi my friend and I (both 13) are just getting into weightlifting and I was wondering if you think our routine is good for beginners (we did throw in track though and we are pretty strong) we plan on ...
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Did tabata training, now my body looks a bit disproportionate
I did tabata intervals religously for 2 months and the results have been great. I did my intervals on an elliptical machine for 4 times a week running for roughly 16minutes to 25minutes a day.
But ...
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I am disabled, can I go to gym?
I am disabled, I use a walker and I'm practicing walking using elbow crutches. I can move my legs, I just can't balance so I have to use aids. My upper body is normal. I want to go to gym, to ...
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Half pull up for the Lats
Which half of the complete Pull up works the Lats more ?
For eg : If I do the lower half of the pull up will it involve my Lats more OR if I do the upper half of the pull up ?
My problem : I can't ...
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Will training upper and lower body on separate days have an effect on the other?
If you have a mainly lower body program, like running, and you rest 3 days a week, will training arms on those days have an effect on the running?
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At Home Regime To Build Upper Body Muscle
At the age of 19, I've come to accept for many years that my lower body would take complete and total predominance when it comes to my muscle mass. However, over the last year or so, I've been ...
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Building a custom upper body routine
My doctor has instructed me to stop doing all leg exercises, and as such I know have to revise my workout routine. I am considering building a custom A/B split upper-body routine and doing my ...
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Training upper body without stressing lower body
Because of a knee injury (right knee) I'm looking for ways to keep my upper body in shape until the injury is over.
I've already found some exercises to keep my arms in shape without using my leg(s) ...
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Symmetrical body workouts to compensate for imbalance
The problem with my body is that I'm so right handed so that my left upper body almost look wasted. My MAC (Mid Arm Circumference) on my left side is 30 while my MAC on my right side is 36. It's the ...
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Widen chest area (side)
I always see alot of professional sportsmen, that their chest/ribcage from the side-view is very wide.
For the normal average human, my arms can cover the whole of my side-view of my chest.
How ...
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Exercise for Upper chest
What would be the best exercises for developing a upper chest ?
I know the answer would be inclined Press movements but some how these don't really help me. Know matter how many I do, I can't get my ...
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Upper back exercise on the road
What are good exercises for upper back which you can preform in the hotel room?
I only have my bodyweight and that's it. Also, I'm not very keen to test the strength of the various hotel's bars/rods ...
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Reducing flab and Building the Upper Body simultaneously - Guidance? [closed]
I have recently joined a gym, and I wanted to build both the abdomen (6-8 packs) and upper body (chest and shoulders). I have used a gym two years back. I have the following questions:
How I ...
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Difference between wide-grip lat pull-downs and wide-grip pull-ups
I have a workout plan based on the use of traditional equipment, than includes both of these exercises. TRX is, I guess, the most known brand of straps suspended from the ceiling or wall. Pull-ups, ...
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Pull-ups: Pain on shoulder joint when lowering body - how to recover from, and prevent or avoid?
I just started doing pull-ups about two weeks ago on a pull-up bar (the one that fits on a doorframe - similar to this).
A day after I started, I got muscle pains all over my shoulder and upper arm. ...
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What exercises can I do to equalize differences in upper-body strength?
I've been struggling with bench recently and have discovered that if my spotter supports the right side of the bar, I'm able to complete the set with considerably greater ease than if I did it on my ...
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Arm workout similar to P4P's ab series?
I've been doing the 8 min ab exercises from passion4profession, and would like to do something similar for my arms.
The exercises in the video are all done without any equipment, they work their way ...
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How to get stronger (mostly upper body)?
I'm a college runner with a 14 month injury that doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon.
So I decided I may as well take up weight-training instead. I absolutely hate lifting weights, but, ...
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How can I increase my pull-ups reps?
Do I do as many as possible to failure?
Or do I stick to a weekly plan or multiple sets with low reps?
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How to do a one-arm pushup?
I'd like to do a one-arm pushup. I'm aware of the guide on Beastskills, but it fails to get into much specifics on how to actually progress to it (for the record, I'm trying to do what is referred in ...
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Routine to strengthen Back and Arms
What machines in a typical gym would help improve my strength with regards to lifting, carrying and so on? I take it I should be looking at improving muscles in my arms and upper back?
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Is It Possible To Gain Mass With Out Increasing The Workout?
For the past couple weeks I've unintentionally kept my workout exactly the same. Same reps, same weight. Not a lack of motivation, it's just when I'm done I can't do any more. But the crazy thing is, ...
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How Can I Stop Swinging On Pull-Ups?
Whenever I do pull-ups, Palms facing in, my body swings forward and backward. I'm trying to avoid this because I was told that swinging will make pull-ups "easier", and take stress off of the target ...
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Isolating the lower and upper pecs?
For the past six months I have been working on my pecs using seated cable fly and machine fly. With the seated cable fly I push downward slightly on the cables to isolate the pecs from the delts. So ...
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Upper body toning
Whats the best exercise moves to target toning of the area (flab) that sticks out between your chest, arm and shoulder when wearing sleeveless tops?
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Body-weight exercises to target Trapezius muscles?
I'm looking for some way to exercise my upper trapezius muscles using only my body weight. Normally, this would be accomplished with shrugs or upright rowing, but without weight, shrugs and rowing are ...
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Clicking and clicking noise with bench presses
When doing bench presses, both the left and right areas of my shoulders make this really loud clicking sound and it feels as if the bones are clicking against each other. This has been happening for ...
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What are some upper-body cardio programs to increase endurance?
I'm looking to keep increasing my endurance when I can't do lower body exercises. Are there any interesting high-intensity programs out there that don't rely on your legs?
For reference, Beachbody's ...
