The dumbbell upright row is an excellent exercise to boost your shoulders growth. As with any other exercise that utilizes weights, it is important to know the proper technique.

If you are new to weight training and think you can impress your friends by pulling 50-pound dumbbells, you may end up with a permanent injury.

Do not do anything stupid, your first priority should be safety. Here is how to execute the dumbbell upright row exercise: (more…)

Continued from High Intensity Interval Training: Fat Loss. A trained body from consistent HIIT sessions will derive about 70 percent of its daily requirement for fuel from body fat and 30 percent from stored sugar: a 70/30 ratio. (more…)

Skinny Arms Your barbed-wire tattoo could use a fourth link. But don’t overdo biceps curls to get there. Did you know that the triceps make up the bulk of your arm’s muscles? Yep, it’s true. If you have skinny arms, you shouldn’t focus on isolation exercises. Have you ever tried rope extensions? Rope extensions work all three heads of the triceps. (more…)

When it comes to exercise, you have many options. You can go to the gym, hire a personal trainer or come up with your own exercise program. You can also exercise at home.

But what if you do not know how to put together a great exercise program and you do not have enough free time to go the gym?

Leave it to professional volleyball player Gabrielle Reece, who is also a mother, to find a fast way to get you fit at home. She teamed up with trainer Mike Monroe to create the Bell Express 15 workout series, fitness kits that include an exercise DVD and all the tools you need to do the workout at home. (more…)

Do you need some workout motivation? Okay, let me ask you this. What is keeping you from going to the gym, and from the body you want?

Is it doubt, fear, or negativity? Do you hear voices in your head that say something like, “It is too hard; I’m too fat; I am too lazy; I’m too skinny?”

If that is the case, you need to realize that there is no way you are going to do another push-up when you have all this drama in your head about why you cannot do something. (more…)

You have probably heard the claims that weight training promotes fat loss by increasing muscle mass, which boosts metabolic rate. However, did you know that some studies show that weight training does not increase 24-hour caloric expenditure?

Do not worry, though; Research shows that regular weight training improves body composition (i.e., increases muscle mass and cuts fat).

Researchers from East Carolina University, led by Michael Ormsbee, showed that weight training increased subcutaneous (under the skin) abdominal fat oxidation and promoted whole-body fat burning during and after exercise. (more…)

Continued from Military Workouts.

In each army workout, you’ll focus on four distinct areas: power, functional strength, cardiovascular fitness and skill training.

You’ll complete two power exercises, two functional exercises and one each for the other two areas.

Be warned though, the army workout is not for the faint of heart. And you definitely want to have medical clearance before you even think about doing any of the following exercises. (more…)

Targets: Biceps

Start: Grasp a barbell with an underhand grip, your hands spaced about shoulder-width apart.

Stand erect with your chest out, shoulders back and spine in alignment, keeping a slight bend in your knees. The bar should rest across the tops of your thighs, arms extended.

Execution: With your elbows tight to your sides, squeeze your biceps to raise the bar in an arc toward your shoulders.

Squeeze for a peak contraction before slowly lowering the bar back down. Stop the bar just short of your thighs to keep tension on the biceps. (more…)