Sentences with phrase «rather than the barbell»

Use dumbbells rather than a barbell if available as it increases the difficulty and requires you to focus on stabilizing each weight.

This can be solved by having one person doing dumbell presses on the same bench rather than barbell presses.

You want them to absorb most of the impact rather than the barbell.

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.

Not exact matches

-- Make training with dumbbells a priority rather than using barbells.

The resistance grows constantly, so you constantly have to recruit new muscle fiber to get the job done, which can make you muscles far stronger and more powerful than usual, or rather, than anything even remotely possible with only dumbbells and barbells.

Whether you're trying to kick a soccer ball, lift a barbell or trying to hold a yoga pose, you're focused on the activity rather than on any stressors.

Another beginner variation is holding a dumbbell lengthwise over your chest in front of your body as you do the exercise rather than placing a barbell behind your neck.

Barbell High Rows are much like regular rows except that you're bent over until the torso is parallel to the floor, you hold the bar with palms facing in and you pull the bar up towards your chest rather than into your belly button.

Performing this exercise on the smith machine rather than a normal barbell, you do not have to worry about having a spotter and can often use larger amounts of weight because the machine keeps the bar from moving forward or back.

By having the weight on a barbell rather than dumbbells, the weight is less concentrated in the users hand, allowing for heavier weight.

For example, when during a curl, rather than saying «bring your hand to your shoulder,» say «bring the barbell to your shoulder».

Rather than holding a barbell in front of your shoulders, hold a kettlebell or dumbbell (turned up on its side, perpendicular to floor) at chest height in front of your body, then squat normally.

Rather than setting up a loaded barbell on the floor, set one up at knee height on the hooks outside the squat rack.

Training in more stable environments (i.e. machines rather than free weights, or barbells rather than dumbbells) involves greater externally - applied forces.

Lastly, they showed that the standing rather than the seated dumbbell shoulder press produced superior middle deltoid muscle activity, and a non-significant trend to greater muscle activity from the standing barbell press compared with the seated variation.

So why would you use a barbell rather than simply holding a broad - based bond index fund?