There are quite a few things that are involved in bodybuilding. However, the first thing you must do in order to achieve your goals is to gain good core strength. This lies in your abdominal muscles and your back, so this article will show you what exercises to do and what muscles to workout.
Most people who suffer from back injuries get them from having very little back strength. Exercising to strengthen your back is something that needs to be done, but you must take it slowly. This is because your back is put together like a puzzle and is comprised of your spine, ribs, ligaments and the scapula.
Injuries to the back are almost always compression or rotation injuries ? they're damage to the soft tissue that lets your back move. Good weight lifting practices and muscle group isolation are key to avoiding back injuries, many of which won't show up for years after you've done them to yourself.
Muscle groups that you need to work on in the back are your traps, lats and deltoids, and you need to take them slowly. Yes, you can get a ripped looking back by overdoing it, but it's better to focus on practical strength increases over physical appearance and muscle building when dealing with your back.
One of the muscles that are important to your back are you trapezius muscles (traps) which are the muscles that line around your neck. A good technique to strengthen these muscles would be shoulder shrugs. This is where you take a dumbbell in each hand and shrug your shoulder up as high as they will go and then let it down slowly.
A related motion, which helps the traps a bit, but mostly works on your deltoids, is a straight-arm lift. Hold a dumbbell in your hand with your elbow at your side, and your forearm out level with the map. Extend your arm until it's at shoulder height, in one fluid motion, and look down your arm at the dumbbell, like you're sitting on a pistol range. Then bring it down slowly. This will work on your deltoids and the yoke of muscle linking your shoulders.
The next muscle that's important in core back strength is your lower trapezius muscle. This is probably the easiest exercise to do, because all you need to do is to do a v-bar pull down so that you isolate the muscle thoroughly.
The next thing you will want to do in building strength in your lower back is shoulder arches. Now this exercise you will want to do lightly as it is easy to overdue it. Just take a dumbbell over the back of your neck, lay down on your front, and arch your back.
Before doing any weight lifting you should always make sure that you do various stretches to prevent any muscle strains or injuries.
Most people who suffer from back injuries get them from having very little back strength. Exercising to strengthen your back is something that needs to be done, but you must take it slowly. This is because your back is put together like a puzzle and is comprised of your spine, ribs, ligaments and the scapula.
Injuries to the back are almost always compression or rotation injuries ? they're damage to the soft tissue that lets your back move. Good weight lifting practices and muscle group isolation are key to avoiding back injuries, many of which won't show up for years after you've done them to yourself.
Muscle groups that you need to work on in the back are your traps, lats and deltoids, and you need to take them slowly. Yes, you can get a ripped looking back by overdoing it, but it's better to focus on practical strength increases over physical appearance and muscle building when dealing with your back.
One of the muscles that are important to your back are you trapezius muscles (traps) which are the muscles that line around your neck. A good technique to strengthen these muscles would be shoulder shrugs. This is where you take a dumbbell in each hand and shrug your shoulder up as high as they will go and then let it down slowly.
A related motion, which helps the traps a bit, but mostly works on your deltoids, is a straight-arm lift. Hold a dumbbell in your hand with your elbow at your side, and your forearm out level with the map. Extend your arm until it's at shoulder height, in one fluid motion, and look down your arm at the dumbbell, like you're sitting on a pistol range. Then bring it down slowly. This will work on your deltoids and the yoke of muscle linking your shoulders.
The next muscle that's important in core back strength is your lower trapezius muscle. This is probably the easiest exercise to do, because all you need to do is to do a v-bar pull down so that you isolate the muscle thoroughly.
The next thing you will want to do in building strength in your lower back is shoulder arches. Now this exercise you will want to do lightly as it is easy to overdue it. Just take a dumbbell over the back of your neck, lay down on your front, and arch your back.
Before doing any weight lifting you should always make sure that you do various stretches to prevent any muscle strains or injuries.
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