Questions tagged [upper-body-workout]
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Help me out with the next body weight exercise which is complimentary to push ups?
I do a lot of aerobic exercise and I finally added some resistance training. The only thing I do is push-ups. My simple plan is three sets of about eight to failure. There's no chance I can do a real ...
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Consecutive 3 day push pull leg workout
Is it okay to do a push pull leg workout plan 3 days per week continuously, like Thursday/push, Friday/pull, Saturday/leg, and then the remaining days off?
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Seeking Advice on Enhancing Upper Body Strength and Muscle Mass
I'm looking to develop a workout plan that utilizes full gym equipment, focusing particularly on my upper body. My forearms and biceps are relatively thin, and currently, I can manage 13 reps x 3 sets ...
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Cracking ellbow and shoulder at pushups
While making push-ups my left elbow and left shoulder crack sometimes. Interestingly, when I do the same movement leaning against a wall there is no cracking sound.
What can I do against the cracking? ...
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Are my exercises and their reps and sets good for fat loss?
I've organized my workout into 6 days: 2 sessions of upper-body workouts, lower-body workouts, and core workouts. The 7th day is a rest day. I am working out at home so these are my options. Please ...
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Unracking the Chest Press Machine without Pedals
previously I used to workout in a gym where there was a chest press machine with pedals like that
However my actual gym just has a plate loaded chest press without pedals:
Since my shoulders hurt ...
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Am I missing any muscle group in my upper body workout?
I usually do these five exercieses on my upper body training:
Dumbbell press
Dumbbell military press/Dumbbell Seated Overhead Press
Seated cable row
Lat pulldown
Dumbbell lateral rise
Is there any ...
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Workout routine feedback?
I am a 19-year-old, 140lbs male. I have been using the routine below for about two months now (with somewhat frequent unstructured lifting before), and I've definitely gained muscle/strength (just hit ...
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Can upper body exercise strain the legs unnecessarily in long-term?
Can upper body exercise strain the legs unnecessarily in long-term?
I've lifted weights in the past, but after thinking that my legs are the most important part of my body, then I've speculated that:
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NO MORE GYM - Suggested At-Home upper and lower-body workout to bulk?
I'm a 36 year old male. I've been working out consistently for the past 14 weeks, going to the gym 4 days/week to workout different muscle groups. I've made a lot of gains, however, I'm about to ...
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Do front/back squats strengthen upper body?
I know it's obviously not gonna be the same as targeting my upper body directly, but will I still get some strength benefits in my upper body from doing front & back squats with a barbell?
I feel ...
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Stamina Decreasing for Some Exercises But Increasing for Others
I've just started working out at a gym for pretty much the first time ever. I've always been really skinny - as in low body fat - but used to have decent muscle mass due to working a very physically ...
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Lu Raises vs Lateral Raises (biomechanical analysis)
let's consider the so called "Lu Raises", frequently performed by Lu Xiao Jun.
I'm curious to understand if they could be a nice alternative to the common Lateral Raises for lateral delts ...
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Does the skull-crusher work the chest isometrically?
sometimes I feel my chest slightly working in the skull-crusher. So, I thought it could be normal. In fact, although all the pictures showing the skull-crusher involved muscles shows only the triceps, ...
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How to gain the strength to successfully perform a pull up [duplicate]
I have very little upper body strength and stamina and have never been able to do a pull up but I'd like to be able to. When holding on to the bar hanging, my arms fully extended I'm unable to lift ...
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Asymmetric Bar Placement in Overhead Position
Hell there,
I have an issue in any kind of exercises involving the Overhead Position (Overhead Press e Overhead Squat).
Precisely, at the Overhead lockout position (shoulder blades elevated and arms ...
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Barbell Row: Shoulders Internally Rotated
let's consider this picture about the barbell row:
Well, I suffer from this problem {shoulders excessively internally rotated) when I perform it normally, and the simple advice "Avoid internally ...
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Proper setup for the Exernal Rotation Press Exercise
here the following exercise (External Rotation Press) is suggested to strenghten the rotator cuff muscles:
The autor states that this exercises works all the rotator cuff muscles to a certain degree. ...
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Activation Cues for the Serratus Anterior
I suffer from a mild winged scapula and I wanted to train my serratus anterior to try to fix it.
There are lots exercises I've found for it. For instance:
Serratus Jabs
Wall Slides
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Overhead press bar path
I've read different opinions about which is the proper bar path for the overhead press.
According to here (and most of the sources), the best bar path is perfectly vertical. If it is, I'd say the ...
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Define lower chest ( dumbells of 5 kg -after 10kg and goes on ) - Home
I have seen many answers on how "to define the lower chest".
I see something interesting as an answer "As your feet go higher, you're targeting more of the lower-chest." Is that ...
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Home workouts that could grow bigger arms
I need suggestions for good home workouts that could grow bigger arms/biceps/forearms
I only know of push-ups. I am not sure if they are enough to make your arms bigger
I am looking for something ...
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Lats and Traps role in depressing shoulder blades
here it's written that shoulder blades depression is performed by the following muscles:
Latissimus Dorsi
Pectoralis Major
Pectoralis Minor
Subclavius
Serratus Anterior
Trapezius (lower part)
Let's ...
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Will stomach fat help to create faster muscle growth on biceps/chest than eating right
If we have fat in our body, our system burns that fat and creates muscle. It eats from the body fat we have.
In old days (8 years ago), I was very skinny, with very little muscle. Now, I have a little ...
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Why should the shoulder blades be protracted (at the top) in push - ups while in bench press not?
here (and somewhere else) it is written that:
At the top of the push-up, your shoulder blades should be fully protracted—moving your shoulder blades away from the spine. As you descend, they will ...
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Is a push-up the same as a bench press?
Functionally, is doing a push up equivalent to doing a body weight bench press?
If not, how does it differ? If I don't own a bench press, can I adapt push ups... E.g incline... As a substitute?
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Reasons to train lower body
Why train legs? As an Olympic lifter this sounds like a ridiculous question to me, because that's just about all I do. However, when met with this question, I couldn't find any non aesthetics based ...
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Protecting upper and lower back during many exercises
I have always been told that in many bodybuilding exercises (for instance chest and back exercises, but also squat, deadlift etc) it's very important to protect the back through the scapular adduction ...
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Rate my upper/lower split
About me
I'm 16 years old, can bench about 45kg, do 16 pull ups, 120 kg leg press for 10 reps, 15 kg barbell biceps curl for about 6 reps
I've been looking through all sorts of upper/lower splits, ...
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Is it bad if i don't have pain after exercise?
I am a 31 years old man. 76kg weight. 180cm tall and It is the third week that, I do body-building.
Usually when i do Barbell Squat or Deadlift, I sweat a lot and I breath fast. After exercise, I ...
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How to prevent tiring forearms when doing bicep curls
I'm trying to focus more on building my biceps (biceps brachii) on specific days (I'm not doing it every day; I work on different muscle groups or just rest on other days).
However, I noticed that ...
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How to get rid off from Pectus Carinatum aka Pigeon chest through diet and workout
I am about 21 years old and I have pigeon chest disease about 3-4 years ago. In start I can not even notice about it but time to time I felt really ashamed to pull off my shirt in front of any people, ...
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Why do women have more lower body strength than upper body strength
Do not talk about men. I would just like to know why women have more lower body strength than they do in their upper body. Is it because women's' hips tend to be wider because of childbirth? What is ...
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Training Pull Ups to failure with more volume
I hear a lot that you should not train pull ups to failure, so I usually do strength training with lots of rest in between sets. The reps depend on whether I choose to do Fighter pull up mode (5-4-3-2-...
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Sternum pain after dips, other upper-body exercises
I'm wondering how best to treat/avoid a sharp sternum pain I get after I do dips or other upper-body exercises. I'm a male, 30 years of age, and it's happened a few times over the past 6-8 months. I'...
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Better for arms & shoulder: breaststroke or freestyle swimming?
I know both are good, but between freestyle and breaststroke, which is more efficient in strengthening arms, shoulders, and upper body?
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Suitable way for exercising upper body
I'm currently using 30 day fitness challenge app, Full-body workout medium plan 2, it's great and working fine but I feel that it's only exercising my lower body. I want to exercise my upper body (arm ...
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Is it normal to have an uneven chest if you’re just starting working out?
I was in an accident and broke my left arm. I started working out and noticed my left chest is smaller. Would my chest become even if I just keep on working out, or do I need a specific routine?
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Does dieting and workouts mix well?
I recently started to diet so I could loose some weight. My main question is if I diet and do some workouts for targeted areas will I loose fat or not?
I am not looking for muscles I just want to ...
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How to reduce body fat?
I've decided to reduce fat, I want to increase my stamina as I feel tiered after walking a half mile and my final target is to get 6-pack abs and good biceps , triceps and chest.
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I'm ...
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How effective is a push-up/pull-up routine?
How effective is a routine consisting entirely of push-ups and pull-ups for the upper body (excluding abs)? Does the volume matter for the answer to this question? Thank you.
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squat much more than bench: need to introduce more upper-body lifts?
My program for 6 months is 5x5 (stronglifts). My last workout ("A") was
squat 3x5 300lbs
bench 5x5 167lbs
row 5x5 112lbs
My workout "B" is:
squat
overhead press 5x5 105lbs
deadlift 1x5 265lbs (...
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Feeling uneasy at 90-100 BPM and it takes time to lower it down
I've a sedentary life style, however, I'm trying to be more active recently.
Whenever I do any activity with moderate intensity e.g. trimming plants, going up/down stairs, running even for a 200m or ...
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what activity elevates your center of gravity? [closed]
what sport or workout would elevate your center of mass/gravity?
bigger arms, tighter calves. would sprinting be a good exercise for this?
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Using a speed rope?
So I found a speed rope, those really light jump ropes in my garage, and I need to exercise, so I took it in my house. I went on YouTube, but it seemed there were only tutorials using a heavy rope and ...
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Is it possible to gain 1.5-2 inches on arms and 2 inches on chest without protein supplement
I started working out quite recently and my trainer at the gym gave me the following diet plan as soon as I joined:
As you can see, most of the items are regular day to day meals (I'm an Indian and ...
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Body Building for 40+
I am 42 and would like to start doing some body building exercises (especially my chest and arms).
Is this something achievable or the age factor will be an obstacle?
if so, can I use same routines ...
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Muscle pain after workout [duplicate]
Actually when I workout some day. Like lifted dumbles,or do sit-ups , then I feel everything is normal,I actually could do without any problem.. But the next day I always feel pain in my muscles of ...
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How to build a bigger and stronger upper body?
I am a football (soccer) player and an occasional hiker. I am also a relatively new gardener and some of the works demand a lot from upper body strength. It seems to me that my upper body is really ...
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Arms Workout per Week
I doing gym for almost 5 months.I got nice shoulders and chest.But when it come to arms i feel something left out.I was thinking of doing arms 2-3 times a week.Is it good to do that and if i do that ...
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