Lower Body Exercises For Beginning Bodybuilders

Written by Rick Mitchell


The lower body contains some of your biggest muscles which are capable of bearing significant weights. The temptation for beginners to go for broke by performing heavy squats should be resisted. To begin with you should concentrate on buildingrepparttar muscles safely by using machines that isolate muscle groups. The squat is an excellent compound exercise that trains numerous lower body muscles but it is one you should learn properly after spending three months strengtheningrepparttar 113020 individual muscles that will be utilized later.

The muscles ofrepparttar 113021 lower body can be divided into five groups:

1. Quads - this isrepparttar 113022 big muscle group consisting of four muscles atrepparttar 113023 front ofrepparttar 113024 thigh. These arerepparttar 113025 primary muscles used when performing exercises such as squats, leg press, lunge and leg extension.

2. Hamstrings - these arerepparttar 113026 main muscles atrepparttar 113027 back ofrepparttar 113028 thigh. These arerepparttar 113029 primary muscles used when performing leg curls.

3. Gluteals - these arerepparttar 113030 muscles that make uprepparttar 113031 buttocks.

4. Hip flexors - these arerepparttar 113032 small muscles atrepparttar 113033 front ofrepparttar 113034 pelvis that allow you to raise your legs torepparttar 113035 front.

5. Calves - these arerepparttar 113036 two muscles found inrepparttar 113037 lower leg.

Exercise The Right Way - The Lying Triceps Extension

Written by Rick Mitchell


Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly fromrepparttar perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performingrepparttar 113019 basic exercises that constituterepparttar 113020 core of most bodybuilders' training regimes.

It is useful, therefore, to describe in detailrepparttar 113021 processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out usingrepparttar 113022 correct techniques before moving on to potentially more dangerous heavy weights. If it also helps more experienced lifters to redress some ofrepparttar 113023 little faults that have almost imperceptibly crept in overrepparttar 113024 years, allrepparttar 113025 better.

In this article we'll take a close look atrepparttar 113026 lying triceps extension.

MUSCLES TARGETED: triceps brachii

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