what exercises do i need to do for my upper body?
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There are many. It really depends on what equipment you have. One of the best overall upper body exercises for someone with NO access to fitness equipment is the standard pushup. Using your body weight in this way is ideal for building the muscles in your chest, shoulders and triceps as you perform the upward phase of the movement, while the descending (going down) phase helps to work your biceps, abdominal area and upper and outer back (if you go slowly that is!) Hope this helps. Please email me at CFM97@yahoo.com if you have more questions!
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you should get with a trainer and let him/her give you a work out plan.or you can check your local listings in your home town for a fitness club.once you start trimming your upper body all that comes off will go to differant parts of your body.so just have a little patience and it come to you
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cardio will give you endurance...you wanna work on strength and maybe size.\n\nI run but I also do leg presses, sqats, hack squats, leg extensions, hammies, lunges, etc for more leg strength for biking. All help, and they also help my run.\n\nI do military, bench, incline, decline, seated row, standing row, cables, lats, delts, etc for upper body. Running does not develop the upper body...so you gotta do weights. I swim...the weights definitely help upper body...and the weights for upper body don't HURT the run...in fact, they may even help it a bit.\n\nI love these two sites for ideas when i am getting bored with whatever routine i am in:\nhttp://www.shapefit.com/training.html\n\nhttp://bodybuilding.com/\n\nThe first lets you focus on an area, and gives ideas how to hit that area.\nThe second site give full workout plans that are tailored for what YOU want to accomplish.\n\nBoth are pretty cool...
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Practice, practice and practice. A little patience and a lot of hard work. Also, try exercising your arms (like pushups or so).
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a few good exercises for you:\n1) when you are doing your crunches, twist. bring your right elbow to your left knee.\n2) hold a weight bar over your head (with only enough weight to make you focus on stability, not much) then, standing with feet shoulder width apart, bring the bar to your left side, then back up, then over to the right side. you are only moving your upper body side to side.\n3)the best excercise (hurts like a mofo) is the side plank. just like the normal plank, but turn to your side. lay on the floor and hold all body weight on your forearm and balance yourself on your forearm and foot. hold this for anywhere from 30sec-1min. i promise you will feel it! =)\n\nGood luck to you =)
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This is one of the exercises for the Shoulder and is performed as below\n\nArnold press\nSitting on a flat bench with your back straight and your feet on the floor, hold a dumbbell in each hand, keeping your arms bent and your palms turned toward your face. Rotate your shoulders backward while raising and opening your arms -- turning your fists away from you -- and press the dumbbells over your head, in a smooth and controlled motion. Lower the dumbbells, returning to starting position.
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You can do sit-ups, push-ups, climb a rope, chin-ups, run laps, stretch, lift weights, etc. good luck!
1091687
A simple exercise you can do at home for no cost is to stand up and hold a wooden chair by the legs in your hands.  Holding your arms forward, bent at the elbow, raise and lower the chair without moving your arms, only your wrists.  Raist the chair until it touches your forehead and then lower it almost until the top of the chair touches the floor and repeat over and over and over.  I've played baseball and tennis all my life and this simple exercise helped me develop an iron-like grip and solid as steel forearms.  You will increase the amount of reps you can do each day, but before you will be able to do nearly 100.  Every day at this and you will start to see an IMMEDIATE difference.
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If you want to workout everyday, you should vary your routine. Upper body one day, lower body the next. You could also alternate with strength training one day and aerobic exercise the next.
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Try wearing wrist weights during the day, even if they are only 5 pounders. That will constantly work the muscles in your arms and shoulders. Beyond that, practice, practice, practice.
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Weight Training.  Here's a complete list of exercises:\n\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises.html
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Contact a gym or local YMCA.  They can tell you.  If you have access to a rowing machine or weights, these will develop the muscles in your shoulders and upper body.  And you could also contact a local sports medicine Dr. office.
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Push ups.  Alot and in various ways. Try using a chair fo inclines or putting your feet on the chair or a bench for the reverse.  Diamond push ups with hands together directly under the chest.  Wide shoulder pushups and the like.
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Gradually increase the number of pushups you do each day.  You could also work to tone your upper body with other weight machines at the gym.
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Probably chair exercises.  Might see if you can find the TV show 'Sit and be fit' that comes on every day during the week...it is geared towards less straining exercises...good luck...
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push ups, bench press, any exercise with your arms is good
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The best body weight excersize I know to bulk up the upper body is the pull-up.\n\nA bar about two feet taller than you that's able to take your weight will do.  Start with a grip about two inches wider than your shouders.  The key is very strict movements.  Pull yourself up from hanging straight down s-l-o-w-l-y, until your chin clears the bar.  Go back down s-l-o-w-l-y, very controlled movements.  Do this until failure, and write down the number you do each time you work out so you can monitor your progress.\n\nYeah, it's hard work...but it puts USABLE, hard muscle on you, quick like.