Know Your Muscles - The Shoulders And Arms

Written by Rick Mitchell


Becoming familiar withrepparttar muscles that make up your body has more benefits than simply allowing you to talk shop with your training partners. The more familiar you are withrepparttar 112977 muscles you're working,repparttar 112978 better you'll be able to judge what's needed to make improvements. In this article we'll get to knowrepparttar 112979 muscles that make uprepparttar 112980 shoulders and arms.

Shoulders and arms work together but they require significantly different exercises to make them bigger and stronger. The main muscles found in these areas are as follows:

1. Deltoid - this is comprised of three separate segments that coverrepparttar 112981 shoulder and run a few inches downrepparttar 112982 arm. The anterior deltoid raisesrepparttar 112983 arm torepparttar 112984 front. The middle deltoid raisesrepparttar 112985 arm torepparttar 112986 side. The posterior deltoid drawsrepparttar 112987 arm backwards.

2. Rotators - these are small muscles ofrepparttar 112988 rotator cuff that control small movements ofrepparttar 112989 upper arm. Consisting of an internal rotator, external rotator and supraspinatus they are used in lifting and throwing actions.

Know Your Muscles - The Mid-Section

Written by Rick Mitchell


Becoming familiar withrepparttar muscles that make up your body has more benefits than simply allowing you to talk shop with your training partners. The more familiar you are withrepparttar 112976 muscles you're working,repparttar 112977 better you'll be able to judge what's needed to make improvements. In this article we'll get to knowrepparttar 112978 muscles that make uprepparttar 112979 mid-section.

The core muscles ofrepparttar 112980 mid-section do much to stabilize and supportrepparttar 112981 torso so it's well worth spending time to train this area properly. The main muscles ofrepparttar 112982 mid-section are as follows:

1. Rectus abdominis - this is a large flat muscle wall that covers most ofrepparttar 112983 front mid-section fromrepparttar 112984 lower chest torepparttar 112985 pubic bone. Aboverepparttar 112986 navel it consists of three pairs of rectangular sections stacked on top of each other and is better known asrepparttar 112987 six pack.

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