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Women Fitness #2: Upper Body Strength Exercises Using Weights (Freddie’s Modern Kung Fu 2010)
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Here are some simple upper body exercises women or beginners can do to increase upper body strength.Freddie has founded Freddies Modern Kung Fu in 2009, an online Martial Arts Academy on YouTube, that expresses his interpretation of Bruce Lees Tao of Jeet Kune Do. His private underground school is located in Chicago, IL. Fitness and Philosophy lessons are all open to the public. Survival technique lessons are only open to official disciples. All techniques are scientifically proven to be effective and are aimed towards unarmed street survival combat. Freddie hand selects disciples to personally train that have the proper discipline and compassionate heart to become successful in his art. If you are interested in becoming an online disciple of Freddies Modern Kung Fu, check his playlist Becoming a Disciple and email Freddie at FreddiesModernKungFu@live.com to determine if this art is right for you. Freddie is also available for personal and private instruction in Chicago, IL. Check out Artistic Wisdom by Wise Flow: www.amazon.com
Upper Body and Abs Workout
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CLICK HERE for a FREE Workout!! www.turbulencetraining.com The thought of having to do an additional 20-30 minutes of abdominal work after a regular workout can sometimes be enough for you to skip the ab training altogether. But, with these six upper body exercises, you’ll gain all the benefits and more of a regular ab workout, without the extra time. This 15-minute upper body workout will not only build your arms, your chest, and your back, but every one of these exercises is also going to work your abdominals. So this workout will include as I mentioned 6 exercises, but they will be broken down into 3 supersets at 5 minutes each. So, the first superset will pair chin-ups with spiderman pushups. Now, just because these aren’t specific abdominal exercises don’t think your abs will walk away unscathed. I remember training a client before and a couple of days after doing the chinup exercise she commented how shocked she was that her abs were so sore. So, with proper form, the chin-up exercise can very powerfully target your abs. For proper form, begin in the dead hang position. Now, keeping your body tight, brace your abs and pull your body up and chin over the bar, then in a controlled fashion, lower your body down. You will noticeably feel this exercise working your lats and your biceps. Perform enough repetitions that take you until one short of failure. For example, if you can do 15 repetitions, then only do 14 and so on. After the chin-up exercise, you will move into …
Upper Body 10×10 Workout
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CLICK HERE for a FREE Workout www.turbulencetraining.com This workout is known as the 10×10 Complex workout, but basically it’s 10 exercises for 10 repetitions. I recommend that you do this exercise without rest, even though it’ll be a lot of work on your forearms. Because of this, you will only use about 30% of what you normally press for eight times in the DB chest press exercise. And only 50% of what you normally do for overhead press. The key is to start conservatively, women you can use five to ten pounds, whereas men, start with 15-25 pounds. If, however, you need a rest, then take a rest but try to improve each time outwhether that be higher waits or less rest. The first exercise is the dumbbell Bulgarian Split Squat. To start, place your back foot up on the bench,drop your hips straight down, and drive up using your lead leg. Do all reps for one side and then switch sides. Move right into dumbbell Shoulder press. Here, your grip will get a bit of a rest. Be sure to keep your elbows back as you press straight up overhead and come down in a controlled fashion. Next, you do the dumbbell Step-up. So, place one foot up on the bench and use that foot to drive up and come down controlled and repeat. Make sure to leave that lead foot up on the bench at all times. Do all reps for one side and then switch sides. You will then go down to do dumbbell Chest Press. Again, your forearms will get a bit of a rest, but you’ll also be starting to get the cardiovascular benefits of …
5 Best Upper Body Kettlebell Exercises
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CLICK HERE for a FREE Workout!! www.kettlebellworkouts.com Here are the five best upper body kettlebell exercises that you can do with only KBs. The first exercise is the Clean Press. In this exercise you are going to work your shoulders a lot, your chest when you press overhead, as well as your triceps. By doing this one arm exercise you will be less likely to develop imbalances when you train. The second upper body KB exercise is a rowing exercise. In this one-armed row, a greater emphasis will be placed on minimizing the rotation and using your abs a lot more to help achieve this. You will be loaded on one side, so your abs will have to work extra hard to prevent any excessive rotation in his torso. Another exercise that really works the upper back and the shoulders is the kettlebell snatches. This is an explosive total body exercise and in fact, you will find that all the KB exercises work your entire body. The next kettlebell exercise is the overhead press. So you will clean the KB up to your shoulder, keeping your arm nice and tight so as to not overexpose your shoulder and then press the KB up nice and high, and then back down to your shoulder and repeat. As you are completing this exercise you want to keep your body as tight as you possibly can, using your abs. So, try not to rotate or bend. The last exercise is the floor press. This will be as close as you get to doing a regular chest exercise when you’re working out exclusively with kettlebells. So, you are …
