Sentences with phrase «of upper body strength as»

Joey has built an outstanding amount of upper body strength as a result, as well as pride within himself.

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Arsenal's Player - of - the - Season Mesut Ozil was accused of laziness in his early days at the Emirates as he adapted to the pace of the Premier League, but last season he made full use of his time out with injury to go to the gym and build up his upper body strength, and he came out in this campaign full of confidence and strength.

Thus, lacking body mass, women made a virtue out of delicacy (often a rather steely delicacy); stuck with not just bearing but also raising the children, women promoted the sanctity of motherhood; deprived of upper - body strength, women made men carry things; afflicted by capricious hormonal fluctuations, women used crying as a form of interpersonal leverage; restricted from the public sphere, women commandeered domestic life; shut out of decent employment, gals adopted a «pay - to - play» strategy - men had to pay for sex, with dinners, rings, and homes.

It takes some of the weight off the arms so baby can venture into a pre-crawling position without needing quite as much upper body and core strength.

Both men and women can accurately assess a man's upper body strength based on his voice alone, suggesting that the male voice may have evolved as an indicator of fighting ability.

«The findings suggest that it may be justified to go beyond the handgrip and to include the upper and lower body when measuring muscle strength, as this may better reflect the association between muscle strength and cognition,» says Early Stage Researcher Heikki Pentikäinen, the first author of the article, who is currently preparing a PhD thesis on the topic for the University of Eastern Finland.

This contributes to building extreme amounts of explosive strength as well as a highly defined, muscular upper body of a Greek god.

Besides being the top ego - boosting lift of all time, the bench press is also a core fundamental exercise for developing upper body strength that's mandatory for all lifters, as it allows you to train your pecs, anterior delts, triceps brachii and latissmus dorsi all at the same time and thus acquire a fully rounded powerful chest and strong arms, shoulders and back.

Additionally, they all have to work as a well - balanced team in order to perform multi-joint exercises, so any weak links will negatively affect the performance of the entire back and diminish your total upper body strength.

As these muscles are largely involved in all functional movements that strengthen the upper body, increasing their strength and power will directly help you lift heavier weights and thereby make bigger gains in terms of upper body development.

In addition, since the chest is one of the most stubborn areas for many bodybuilders, the bench press has become the most popular way to make those pesky pecs grow, while reaping strength and size gains in every other muscle in the upper body as well.

The best part of this equipment is that it helps you to use the weight of your body to tone as well as give strength to both, your upper and lower body.

This advanced exercise is one of the best tests of core and upper body strength as well as requiring great body control and is therefore a great addition to a bodyweight exercise routine.

Pull - ups are considered as one of the best body weight movements you could do to add muscle mass to your upper body as well as strength.

As an example, in my training, I am pretty much limited to a 2 - hour spot, and I have to get a solid warm - up, train either upper or lower body, and then get in my specialized Grip and Feat of Strength Training, plus recovery work.

While it will not build the strength of hardcore bodyweight exercises such as the planche press up, the standard press up is a truly excellent compound exercise that builds basic upper body strength and allows quick progress to be made so that very soon you can be doing 50 to 100 reps which ensures excellent muscular endurance, core strength and the knowledge that you are in good shape.

TRX pikes are a great exercise for abs but also require upper body strength as you have to hold up a good percentage of your bodyweight.

As one blogger put it: «Tom wants to make his upper body bigger and increase his upper body strength (to impress the women, of course).

Adding a climbing rope to your garage gym will give you a fantastic whole body training aid as there is no better measure of a person's upper body strength and overall endurance than rope climbing.

I teach male students who have the necessary upper body strength, but not the necessary flexibility; female students who have the mobility, but not the strength; and of course, males and females with little of either, as well as males and females with lots of both.

Given Marc's huge topic about afterburn of resistance training and efficacy of HIIT cardio, I'd like to indicate that Bikram yoga (and possibly other kinds I haven't attempted) includes a good deal of strength training (mostly the largest muscles i.e. legs, core and lower back with upper body coming as you go heavier) and feels pretty much like a high intensity cardio work out for perhaps 60 - 70 of the 90 minutes — as well as the other advantages.

So, even if you're not as strong as a man in the upper body, there's always the opportunity to improve your level of strength.

Sticking with the bench press as an example, it may only consist of the pectoralis muscles, the deltoids and the triceps but the pectoralis is a massive muscle (comparatively for the upper body) but this explains why it is one of the best measures of upper body strength there is available.

The time taken to achieve this depends on many factors such as your current upper body strength, how much you weigh and how dedicated to the task you are, but most people can get to 20 reps with a couple of months of hard training.

Put differently: Push / pull / legs routines such as this one allow you to utilize the big compound exercises during each workout session (good for overall strength); but it also gives you the ability to «specialize» to a certain extent due to the nature of the split (good for muscle building — you can dedicate full sessions to upper body pushing muscles, upper body pulling muscles as well as legs).

I do weights for my upper body and a few all body excercises as well (such as the mountain climber, planks etc.) I'm loving the feeling of strength and toning from these methods.

They are known as one of the most challenging exercises, and for good reason: They require you to use you're the strength of your arms and your upper body to support the entire weight of your body and successfully pull it up.

As such, it is obviously an excellent way of enhancing * you upper body's strength.

This routine is only 8 minutes long, quite short, so it's perfect to add as an addition to any of your strength training workouts, either upper body or lower body.

My brief initial drives didn't go much better, as I was turned off by the overly boosted electric power steering (earth to Chevy: most of us have more upper body strength than a five - year - old girl).

Bali Tree Top is another exciting way to get a work out — swinging from tree to tree in the mountains of Bali requires mental courage as well as upper body strength.