Range of Motion and Your Workout Routine
Range of motion has long been discussed in injury prevention in all sorts of physical activities, but what does it have to do with actual muscle building? The range of motion idea centers around working every part of your muscle, evenly promoting growth on all sides.
There are a number of workouts that help you to employ this concept, the focus here is the incline position.
You have a few main muscle groups that we reference and then designate workouts for.
We have the back, chest, arms, legs and abdominal to be completely general.
It doesn't do your workout, your mind or your body justice to throw together a general workout that touches these groups in a general way, this robs us of performance, definition and strength.
For this discussion I am going to focus on the incline factor in a few of the more popular workouts.
Setting up on an incline bench allows us a whole new workout experience; it gives the muscle group we are working a full range effect while bringing in complementary muscles which ultimately causes bigger gains.
You can nearly do any chest, arm or back workout from an incline position and add a whole new element to your routine.
The chest and arms are the two bigger benefactors from this incline position as you use more muscles to perform the same exercise, while also having a stronger focus on your main muscle.
For example the incline bench press or incline dumbbell flyes.
Both of these exercises are great while laying flat, adding the incline bench to them allows you to max out your chest from top to bottom and side to side, allowing you that full definition and increasing your strength big time.
Recently I have begun to do a lot of incline triceps and biceps work and have seen some amazing results.
Incline dumbbell curls have allowed me to gain nearly an inch on my arms in under a month, that's big results really fast.
Incline work can be discouraging, it is much more difficult and will leave you much sorer in the short term, but I am of the opinion that this harder work is worth it.
I encourage you to try mixing up your routine and adding the incline element to your workout.
For me I get the best results maxing out on incline before doing the same exercises on a flat bench, this allows me to truly max out my muscles and experience some explosive gains.
There are a number of workouts that help you to employ this concept, the focus here is the incline position.
You have a few main muscle groups that we reference and then designate workouts for.
We have the back, chest, arms, legs and abdominal to be completely general.
It doesn't do your workout, your mind or your body justice to throw together a general workout that touches these groups in a general way, this robs us of performance, definition and strength.
For this discussion I am going to focus on the incline factor in a few of the more popular workouts.
Setting up on an incline bench allows us a whole new workout experience; it gives the muscle group we are working a full range effect while bringing in complementary muscles which ultimately causes bigger gains.
You can nearly do any chest, arm or back workout from an incline position and add a whole new element to your routine.
The chest and arms are the two bigger benefactors from this incline position as you use more muscles to perform the same exercise, while also having a stronger focus on your main muscle.
For example the incline bench press or incline dumbbell flyes.
Both of these exercises are great while laying flat, adding the incline bench to them allows you to max out your chest from top to bottom and side to side, allowing you that full definition and increasing your strength big time.
Recently I have begun to do a lot of incline triceps and biceps work and have seen some amazing results.
Incline dumbbell curls have allowed me to gain nearly an inch on my arms in under a month, that's big results really fast.
Incline work can be discouraging, it is much more difficult and will leave you much sorer in the short term, but I am of the opinion that this harder work is worth it.
I encourage you to try mixing up your routine and adding the incline element to your workout.
For me I get the best results maxing out on incline before doing the same exercises on a flat bench, this allows me to truly max out my muscles and experience some explosive gains.
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