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[Article] Free Weights

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Free weights provide overall muscular strength and power gain.With Free Weights such such as dumbbells ,you can peform quite a variety of different excercises targetting different areas of the body and different muscle groups . Freeweight can be used by anyone of any shape,size or strength
When you're a beginner and your strength level isn't that high you can use lighert dumbbells as you improve and get stronger you up the weight and move onto barbells are the best free weights for you.Free weights can build both stability and also balance in a way machines can't.


Here are some free weight exercises for you:

Bench Press: Can also be performed using a barbell. The BenchPress gives you are far greater range of motion. This free weight exercise targers and also strengthens your triceps, pectorals and shoulders.
Start off by sitting down on bench and have the dumbbells resting on your lower thighs. The weights should then be lifting up to your shoulders as you lie back Have the dumbbells to the sides of upper chest with elbows tucked under the dumbbells.
Pressed the dumbells up using your elbows until your arms are fully extended. Then lower the weight back down to the sides of your upper chest . Repeat the exercise.



Bicep curl: Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and relax your knees. Hold the barbell at shoulder width apart. Standing straight with the bar hanging in front of your thighs.
Then lift with your elbow curling the bar to shoulder level. Hold for two seconds and lower the bar back down to the original position.


Tricep curl: Tricep curl can be done with one weight in each hand or barbell . When using dumbbels you can also choose to use free hand to steady the arm being exercised. This provides you with a stricter movement.
lower the bar until the your arms are straight. Then slowly bring the bar back to its original position.
Free weights are better way to attain an overall workout. There are different exercises that use free weights to target each of the muscle group. By using different excercises on the same muscle you incease the muscle workout
 
Machines are not the enemy. I have access to a whole range of Isokinetic machines. This means Thad as doing a shoulder press for example there is resistance in the eccentric and concentric part of the lift...and not juz the concentric, like your tricep curl
 
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