Get More From Your Fitness Workouts Just make Some Small Adjustments

Get More From Your Fitness Workouts  Just make Some Small Adjustments

Hi There,

   Here a couple of "tweaks" you can make to common exercises
that will help your workout have more value so to speak.

  After you’ve been hitting the gym for a while and have good form down pat,
 it’s time to take a look at what you can be doing to get more from each workout
you do. How you perform the exercises you’re doing is going to have a large
influence on the results that you see and some exercises can be tweaked slightly
to produce superior progress.

Let’s look at a few of these adjustments so you can see how you should go
about doing them in your workout routine.

Single Leg Split Squat

Small Tweak: Pressing up through the heel

Big Results: Greater glute development

  When doing your split squats, rather than thinking of pressing up through the
forefoot, think of pressing up through the heel while leaning backward ever so
slightly. Doing so is going to place more stress on the glute muscles specifically,
really helping you see maximum muscle development.
     Leaning forward can actually put great strain on your lower back joints, so
should be avoided entirely

Bicep Curls

Small Tweak: Turn in at the peak of the contraction

Big Results: Greater definition

   When doing a bicep curl, you can make a small adjustment to the way you
perform it that will make the exercise that much more effective.
Rather than simply curling the weight up keeping the palms upright as normal,
you’ll want to instead curl up and then twist the dumbbell in at the very top.
This small twist will help you reach full muscular contraction with the biceps,
ensuring optimal force development. Really think of shortening the bicep muscle
as you do this for maximum progress.

Leg Press

Small Tweak: Foot placement

Big Results: Better focused results

  Finally, the last tweak is your foot placement when doing the leg press exercise.
How you place your feet here will all depend on the main muscles you want to work.
By placing the feet higher up on the platform, you’ll hit your glutes and hamstrings
to a larger degree while placing them lower on the platform will hit your quads better instead.
Then, if you want to really hit the outer quads and get that ‘quad sweep’ as it’s called
(the outer definition of the quad), you can place the feet low on the platform with the
feet closer together with the toes slightly turned in. You’ll really be feeling it then.

   So there you have a few adjustments that you’ll want to try making next time you head in for a resistance training session. These changes may all seem relatively small, but they
will lead to big results.

Thanks For Reading,
Scott

Bicep Curl

Leg Press