Upper body Workout
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Upper Body workout is where you will be focusing on your arms and the muscles in your arms. This workout below if you do it almost everyday you will start seeing results fast. Arm strength is important especially when it comes to lifting boxes or anything in a job.
Arm Circles (warm up)
This exercise focuses on working the entire shoulder and makes an excellent warm-up before any resistance or weight training involving the shoulders. Do this for about 10-15 seconds per arm. The purpose of this workout is to get your muscles in the arm warmed up, so that when you start your work out your muscles wont be as sore the next day!
Push ups (Exercise)
All you need for this exercise is your arms and possibly a mat. The muscles that you will be working out are the biceps, pectorals and deltoid. Make sure that your body is up so that your legs are straight and that your hands are flat on the ground, then go up and down. While your going up and down you must be going flat to the ground but don't touch the ground and don't stick your butt in the air while your going up.Try doing three sets of 5 but of course take breaks in between each 5. This exercise will improve your biceps, pectorals and deltoid by the way you are doing your pushup. This will help strengthen your muscles to be stronger.
Lifting weights (Exercise)
All you need for this exercise is weights, Try lifting light weights to start off with. Using both arms and go in an up and down motion. Make sure that when your going down that your arm is straight. Try doing 5 reps, take a break in between each rep. This exercise will improve your biceps. Doing this exercise improves your biceps when your arm goes down, when your arm goes down you can sometimes see your vein, that also shows that you are working that vein and muscle. Your bicep is the muscle that helps you lift things such as say boxes! working out this muscle can be very handy in the future and for jobs.
Lat pull down (Exercise)
What you need for this exercise is a bar. Grab the bar and pull it down to your chest area, then go back up all the way until your arms are straight. start with a light weight that you think would be nice to start with. Do 5 reps each. If you feel like you can do more than try more than the previous weight that you had go for it and try doing 10 reps. This exercise works out your latissimus dorsi and your biceps muscles. The Latissimus dorsi muscle is a muscle in the shoulder and it helps with the lifting of things and movements with the arms,
Arm stretch (Cool down)
Put your right hand on your right shoulder and lift your elbow upwardsYou can help to lift it and stretch it further with help from your left hand Repeat with the left arm You should feel a slight stretch on the back of your upper arm. This will help stretch out your arms so that they aren't tense the next day. Repeat as you wish.
After the workout
Do you feel the burn? If you do then you did a great job today! Good job, we hope to see you back again and continue to work on those arm muscles.