Sentences with phrase «better than a barbell»

The main benefit of using dumbbells is that it requires you to engage a greater number of muscles compared to the barbell and machine variant and actually activates the lower fibers of the chest press better than a barbell press — since your hands are free to move across your body when you use dumbbells, the lower pecs get a better workout.

He found that dumbbell bench presses generally activated those chest muscles better than barbell presses.

Chin - ups are also great for biceps, much better than barbell rows.

Not exact matches

Many people focus on dumbbell curls for their biceps, which is all well and good, but if you want to really attack the biceps, as well as give your forearms a heck of a workout too, then the barbell curl is absolutely ideal, and is a lot harder than it looks too.

That being said, nothing is better for building a pair of massive traps than the combination of heavy weight and barbell shrugs!

Sometimes, doing a million barbell curls might help you build a bigger and better arm, but more often than not, you are going to need a more meticulous approach.

And remember — barbells are better than dumbbells, cables and machines with its superior stimulation effect on the muscles.

And there is no better way to do it than with the one - arm eccentric barbell curl, originating from the masochistic mind of Charles Poliquin.

The deadlift will add more lower back, hamstring, and glute development than doing the barbell back squat alone, but if it's too draining on your body's resources, and negatively impacts whole - body muscle development and hormonal response due to overtraining, it's better to avoid it for now.

Probably the best compound exercise out there, the barbell deadlift works more muscles than any other.

By bringing the dumbbells in at the top, not only do you isolate the pecs (as opposed to the anterior deltoids) better than in the barbell incline press, but you also stimulate those inner fibers near the midline of your upper chest, to really bring out that pec separation line.

For example, you'll have hard time finding better exercise for leg strength and size than barbell squats.

People who treat machines like the plague are no better than people who refuse to touch a barbell.

For me, the Dumbell Bench Press on the Swiss Ball is a MUCH better chest developer than Flat Barbell Bench Press.

The dumbbells allow for greater freedom of movement and better pec activation than the barbell bench press.

Though new age training has changed the game for the better with athletes and trainees becoming more powerful, more mobile and generally more awesome than ever before, there is still room in one's training schedule to get that barbell back into your hands!

It's very important to get a good quality barbell, as this will feel better and be far safer to use than a cheaper one.

According to ACE's study on best triceps exercises, overhead tricep extension scored higher on effective than other popular triceps workouts such as Barbell Triceps Extensions and Bench Press Down.

It's best to take a barbell off a shoulder - height rack than to lift it off the floor.

I suggest you do this exercise with an E-Z curl bar as it is easy on the wrist and stimulates the forearm muscles better than regular straight barbells.

I recommend that you do this exercise with dumbbells rather than a barbell simply because dumbbells allow your wrists and forearms greater freedom of movement to not only find their best path for the exercise but also to increase the stabilizing requirement as you're leaning down onto your forearms.

But it might all be worth it for the car - chase / crash / exploding sequence featuring giant barbells getting scattered across a freeway and wreaking vehicular havoc that is a veritable orgy of destruction — it may well be the Michael Bay - iest thing Michael Bay has ever shot, so empty and so pointless and so hilariously excessive that it says more about Michael Bay than it does anything else... not that he ever appears to have anything else to talk about than his own obsession with luxuriating in cartoon violence.

Barbell strategy advantages include offering better diversification than a bullet approach, and reducing risk while retaining the potential to obtain higher returns.

This would be based on the premise that the combined performance of this «barbell» portfolio would be better than a «bullet» portfolio entirely of mid-term bonds.