The Arnold press is an excellent bodybuilding exercise for working the shoulders. As you might expect, this move is named after Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Austrian bodybuilder and actor used to perform this little known exercise during his workouts. How to perform the exercise? The Arnold bench press is a technical movement. It is...
Usually, dips are done on a machine called the Roman chair or parallel bars. But here's the thing, when you don't have access to this weight training equipment or you want to build muscle at home, you have to find alternatives. So you can do this weight training exercise between 2 benches or on a...
After you have done your warm-up, you take a bench and incline it to about 30 degrees. Choose dumbbells to perform the exercise. Then with your back resting on the bench, start with both dumbbells in the up position then lower one dumbbell keeping the other one up then develop the dumbbell and do the same with the other...
What is the HIP THRUST? The hip thrust is undeniably one of the best exercises for building up the buttocks. There is a machine specially designed to do the hip thrust but not all gyms are equipped with this equipment. So to replace the machine, thanks to a bench...
How to perform the exercise? The bench knee raise is a variation of the Roman chair exercise for building abdominal muscles. Like most pelvic lift exercises, the bench knee raise mainly involves the rectus abdominis (which allows for trunk flexion) but also the abdominal muscles.
The inclined bench press is an exercise that allows you to build up your abdominal muscles and firm up your waist. It is often said that it solicits the lower abdominal muscles (as opposed to crunching exercises that work the upper abs), in reality it works the rectus abdominis as a whole, the famous "6pack"...
The extension 1 dumbbell behind the head are an exercise of musculation which makes it possible to develop the muscles of the triceps. It is an exercise complementary to the bar to the face or high pulley which targets the 3 fascicles of the triceps and particularly the long portion. How to perform the exercise? Take a dumbbell and sit on it...
The Barre au Front is a bodybuilding exercise that develops the triceps in priority. It makes it possible to gain strength and muscular volume on that portion. It is called like that simply because it consists in bringing back the bar towards the forehead while lying on a bench of body-building with flatness....
This exercise aims to build up the muscles of the arms: mainly biceps but also the anterior brachialis and the forearms. The Incline Curl on a bench is an isolation exercise for the biceps. It is a variant of the seated curl or the standing curl to build up the arms without risk and has the advantage of...
Who nowadays doesn't dream of one day having big arms like Arnold Schwarzenegger? We see many bodybuilders every day at the gym doing curls on the bar or desk or alternating curls with dumbbells. But very few practice the Spider...
The seated bench press with dumbbells is a good basic exercise which targets mainly the shoulders and makes it possible to develop the mass of these with a better amplitude of movement compared to a traditional seated bench press with the bar. Depending on the grip used, it is possible to use different deltoid fascicles: with your hands...
This exercise aims to solicit many muscles: the pectoral muscles, the dorsal muscles, the triceps, the serratus major, the rhomboid. Which muscles are requested during the pull over? The Pull over which is an exercise olé-articulare is often regarded as an exercise of musculation essential to integrate into a session of pectoral...
How to perform the exercise? The concentrated curl with a dumbbell on a bench is an exercise of isolation to build up the biceps. Among other things, this exercise helps develop the "peak" of the biceps. Coupled with other more complete exercises such as the barbell curl or the desk curl, it will allow you to develop large muscles.
The bench press with barbell is a good bodybuilding exercise to target and shape the glutes and quadriceps. It is an exercise which makes it possible to work the thighs and the buttocks without the risks related to the squat in particular by the fact that the back remains right and vertical throughout the movement and that the...
The frontal elevation with the bar bust on bench is an exercise which requests the shoulders with mainly the anterior deltoid. And to a lesser extent the upper trapezius as well as the biceps and the forearms. Contrary to the exercise of the frontal elevations with the upright bar, this variant bust on bench makes it possible to make intervene only the...
The incline bench bird is an isolation exercise that primarily targets the posterior shoulder bundle. In other words, the posterior deltoid. It's important to add this exercise to your workout routine. Why? Because this part of the deltoids is often neglected and lags behind the other fascicles. You can perform it...
The spread inclined dumbbells is an exercise of isolation which solicits the higher part of the pectoral muscles and in particular the clavicular part, the shoulders and the triceps being little solicited. One generally uses this exercise at the end of the session after heavier basic exercises. Other stabilizing muscles come into play contrary to the exercises with the bar or on the...
