Upper Body Workout Warm Ups

Series Summary

The sport of weightlifting traces its origins back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, where we find it used as a standard of measurement for human strength. But in the 21st century, the term strength has different connotations to it. We’ve begun to move away from massive bulk and girth, the Herculean dead lifting of barbells and the grunting produced by an animal exertion of force. We’ve begun to measure strength relative to the man; and instead of looking for the biggest and the fiercest, we seek out the man who has done the best job of training his own body, who has mastered the amount of power he has be allotted. With our newfound focus on fitness and holistic strength training holding true, new gyms continue to surface every day, and the encyclopedia of exercises designed to target specific muscle groups grows by leaps and bounds. Strength training develops the endurance and size of the skeletal muscles, which helps with flexibility and improved cardiac and joint functions. It also increases metabolism for several hours after a workout, which promotes fat loss. In these free workout videos, learn some basic weightlifting exercises you can do to target your back and chest muscles, including flys, incline and decline press, pull ups and pull downs, rows, shrugs, and few others techniques. So don’t try to outdo the guy next to you who’s lifting 400 lbs; make your fitness goal to improve your body every day!

Video Transcript

"Hey, today I'm going to be showing you how to safely and effectively have a good upper body workout. We are going to be doing this circuit style, and the first thing you should do before every workout is start with a warm up. So, what I like to do, is I like to do a little bit of form rolling, which is going to help relax the muscles and just release the tension and it's just all around good for just your entire body. So, you're going to have to find some areas which might be a little tight on you, so I know with me for example: I have problems on the I.T. bends and outside of my quads, so for that it's just as simple as getting the foam roll right on the side of your leg here, and just rolling it over, and when you find an area that's tight, just hold it for a little bit, and then keep moving and that hurts a good amount right there, you can feel it. And, then you're going to come right back down and then another area that's tight for me as well, in my hamstrings. So, just simply place it underneath your hamstrings and you can roll it back and forth like this. Hold it when it gets a little tender and then keep it going. So, I'm pretty loosened up now from the foam rolling. Now, a really good idea is to get some cardio in. It's just good to burn some calories, get the oxygen flowing, and just get warmed up real good. If you're going to be doing cardio on your off days from weight training, I would suggest maybe not doing so much, but for me I like to only do cardio on weight training days, so I'll probably only do about ten, thirty minutes total throughout the work out. And, I like to keep it pretty low intensity. So, your treadmills are pretty basic, I'm probably just going to be going at a three point five incline, at a three point five speed, nothing too hard."