Best Excersises for particular muscles/muscle areas

tolosenc

My first question would be the pectorals/abs/bi and tri ceps

conor-mr2

I cant really answer your question directly as there are many but Ive found this site to be very useful for info

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Hank_Scorpio

Nice site. Nice for weight lifting. But don't forget you can also do them the old fashioned way.

Here are some of my techniques without weights. Sorry if they seem vague.

Pectorals and Biceps

Pushups- hands wide - hands on top of each other
slow to build muscle - fast to tone
Lie down with hands on ground, get someone to lean on your shoulders in a pressup position directly over you - now you're lifting x2 your own weight.

Triceps

Dips - from a bench/chair - on the ground

Abs

Various sit ups -

lie on back, knees bent (feet flat on floor), hands on thigh and push forward until the wrists past the knees and back down.

lie on back, raise knees into chest (feet in air), sit forward until your wrists touch your knees.

Lie on back, feet up in air (legs straight 90 degree angle), reach up and touch toes.

Use a medicine ball, lie on back, arms out stretched holding the ball on the ground past your head. Proceed to do situps as normal.

Lie on back, legs up in air at 90 degrees, drop your legs down one side without touching off the ground and repeat for the opposite side.

Transverse Obliques, Lie on front, elbows on the ground, lift up your body so only the elbows touch the ground and your toes are on the ground. Hold it.
Lie on right side and use the right elbow and lift your body up from the ground so only right foot and right elbow touch the ground. Hold it. Repeat for left.

Situp-standups, with a partner, sit face to face, one set of feet under partners buttocks and hook arms around the legs. Do a sit up, partner pulls the back of your legs to give ballance, stand up, and sit down and repeat.

pwd

"slow to build muscle - fast to tone"

No. Slow to build muscle without the capability to exert strength at speed. fast to build muscle with the capability to exert force at speed.

Bicycle crunches are probably the best exercise for the abs without weights.

Bench press is probably single most effective exercise for the chest/triceps.

Dumbell curls build biceps.

voxpop

Conor-Mr2 wrote:

I cant really answer your question directly as there are many but Ive found this site to be very useful for info

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

The info on exrx.net is supposed to be a little dodgy with form and muscles used - or so ive been told.
Check out http://www.bsu.edu/webapps2/strengthlab/home.htm also to make sure your doing exercies correctly

close grip bench press,tricep extensions - triceps
military press - shoulders
upright row/shrugs - traps

conor-mr2

Angry_Penguin wrote:

The info on exrx.net is supposed to be a little dodgy with form and muscles used - or so ive been told.
Check out http://www.bsu.edu/webapps2/strengthlab/home.htm also to make sure your doing exercies correctly

close grip bench press,tricep extensions - triceps
military press - shoulders
upright row/shrugs - traps

Hey thats a damn good site too. Thats going into favorites.

cheers