Z Press is performed by sitting flat on the floor and knee
has to be kept straight; you need trunk strength to perform this exercise. It
improves flexor mobility and strengthens lumbar spine. It’s performed in the
same fashion as that of overhead press but legs are taken out of the equation.
It helps with overcoming overhead press plateau and builds triceps strength. It’s
a hard exercise but a very effective one.
Please let me know whether you do Z Press exercise? If so,
please share your experience and how beneficial this exercise has been to you?
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Workout Routines and Back Development!First of all, I want to thank all of my subscribers,
viewers, Google+ friends and my fellow youtubers who have constantly supported
me and motivated me. My channel has got 100 subscribers recently which wouldn't
have been possible without all you support.
I have been working on back thickness and more detail on the
back muscle. I wanted to share the progress and see what I can achieve in the
coming weeks.
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Is Kevin levrone doing a comeback to bodybuilding 2015? Well
looks like he is back in serious training as he is gaining back some serious
size and looks ripped. Few of his recent videos and pictures suggest he might
do a comeback to bodybuilding, but what show is unknown. I have been a big fan
of “The Maryland muscle machine” and truly believe he is one of the few
uncrowned Mr. Olympia.
Please let me know what do you think about this? Will he return?
Will we be able to see the legend compete one more time and may be win.
3 Minutes home Abs workout can be done pretty much anywhere,
be it your gym or home or even a park. I added just two of the exercises to
this workout, one being leg raises and the second one is plank. Leg raises is a
great exercise to build the lower abs, people seem to have great difficulty building
lower abs compared to upper abs. upper abs can be built with doing regular
crunches and if you have low body fat even better, you can have visible upper
abs.
This is just a basic abs routine to build abs, specially tailored
to people who cannot invest lot of time in the gym or anywhere else working
those abs. No need to invest in any fancy abs workout equipment, you simple do this 3 Minutes home Abs workout and obtain the desired results. Planks are
great exercise for core and one should do them very often.
I recommend at least 5 sets of 20 reps and as you progress
and build strength do add more sets. It’s even better if you can pile on more
reps says 30–45 each set bit later on.
I will be doing more videos on advanced abdominal workout
and other variation for 3 Minutes home Abs workout in next series.
Fitness bands are everywhere now, but the biggest question is are they useful? Do they really work? And work wonders for one. Well before we look into these questions lets first know what are fitness bands and what do they do?
Well these wrist bands are no ordinary bands, they are health tracking devices. These devices helps one to track heart rate, blood oxygen level and total steps taken for particular day and calories burnt. It does give you some good data which otherwise can’t be manually tracked. The information provided by these bands are quite impressive. They are flashy and in-thing in the fitness industry, they come in wide variety of designs and price ranges. Prices range from $100 to $ 250 and above depending on the brands and functionality and designs, now you can’t expect all in one in the basic model. There are lot of top brands in the market namely, Fitbit flex, Jawbone and the misfit shine, well suit yourself!
Now let’s come to performance, these data provided is excellent but isn’t 100% accurate and each brand device works different way based on the Algorithm used. Well my biggest question is what do you do with these data? I mean does an average Joe needs these lot of data? My answer is No! I would rather say it’s a great collectable item for people who are very passionate about fitness. Fitness bands are a great success throughout the world. I believe the major reason for the success of these bands are due to motivational aspect than that of functionality and accuracy. Monitoring makes people stick to their plans way better than compared to otherwise and these bands do certainly standout in monitoring aspect of it. But do they help you to be absolutely fit and have a great physique, No. So all in all I would give a thumbs up for these fitness bands.
Hindu push-ups is a great exercise used by wrestlers from India, Iran and Japan mainly Asian countries. The exercise is named as Hindu as it’s believed to be originated from India. Even today it’s a staple exercise in an Akhada which is the place where wrestlers train and it’s more like a dojo. It hits multiple muscles like Arms, legs, core and shoulders. This a great exercise to get in shape quickly, it has to be done with high repetition say like 30- 35 reps and if you can do more the better.
Hindu squats
It helps develop one’s endurance and helps build great stamina. It is also said to strengthen the internal organs and because of the breathing technique involved. One of the all-time best wrestler to come out of India was Gama. He is said to more than 4000 of these Hindu squats to build his phenomenal leg strength it’s not a bodybuilding workout but more like strengthening and conditioning workout. If one does giant sets of Hindu push-ups and squat, it will build great strength and functional strength will sky rocket.
Do try this work out and you will get in shape in no time.
Franco Columbu was the Strongest Bodybuilder of the Golden
Era of the bodybuilding and was pound for pound strongest of them all. We all
know him as the side kick of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the days of pumping
iron or much before. However he had more to him than just being a side kick, he
was weightlifting, powerlifting and then a bodybuilding champion.
He was not just a bodybuilder who had muscles, he could put
them to use to put people to sleep since he was also a European boxing
champion. He has won numerous weightlifting and bodybuilding competitions,
winning Mr. Europe, Mr. World, Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia twice (1976 and
1981).He trained Sylvester Stallone for the Rambo movies.
He had set great PR’s on bench squat and deadlift and also
on heavy shoulder presses. The most interesting thing was when he competed in
world’s strongest man 1977, he was dabbling a refrigerator and had a fall and
injured his leg. Doctors declared that the leg was broken, but Franco said it
wasn't broken, it was dislocated. If you are already not impressed by his
feet’s of strength, one must be impressed by his will and dedication which was
put into display when he when through rehabbing his leg and competing again to
win the Mr. Olympia title in 1981. Post his accident at the world’s strongest
man, he had lot of work at his hand and his efforts are commendable
irrespective of where the Olympia of 1981 was fixed or not!
Like Arnold he came from a small village, he was from
Sardinia Italy. He conquered the world of bodybuilding and did do small parts
in movies made lot of money and became successful.
Machines vs Free weights has always been interesting debate, well let me give you my opinion on the topic based on my experience. Nothing beats training with free weights, if you want to build a strong foundation and solid physique you need to train relentlessly with weights and less of machines. I would say 80% of one’s training should be with free weights and rest with machines. Machines do have their place in training, but they do have to take the back seat.
Physiques like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Franco columbu, Sergio Olivia all emulate powerful physique which comes from training hardcore with free weights.One cannot achieve that strong looking physique with out training with free weights. you got to do barbell rows, dead-lifts, barbell curls, squats, bench press, shoulder press and over head press there is absolutely no substitute for these exercises. If you do use machines as an alternative for these exercises than you can never have that strong and powerful physique.
Do train with free weights and less of machines and see the results and the difference physique.
Travel and Tranquility, I got the much needed break in my hometown of Udupi. It’s a city in the southwest Indian State of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of Udupi District. Udupi is notable for the Krishna Temple and lends its name to the popular Udupi cuisine.
Tulu is the most widely spoken language in Udupi City. Other languages spoken here include Kannada, Konkani.
The climate in Udupi is hot in summers and pretty good in winter. During summers (from March to May) the temperature reaches up to 40 °C and in winters (from December to February) it is usually between 32 °C and 20 °C.
Places to visit in Udupi are Malpe Beach, Krishna Temple and End point. There are lot of other beaches in Mangalore and other places too.
Commando Row is an isometric exercise for the core and also a contracting exercise for lats. This exercise gives a good stretch to the lats, it stabilizes your abs. it primarily hits your delts and biceps.
Arnold Press is better at targeting the front delts than compared to the overhead press. This is a short footage from my shoulder workout today. It’s a unique exercise to isolate your delts and since Arnold invented this exercise, he coined his name.
I use this exercise at the end of my shoulder workout as a burn out. I do high reps on this exercise to tax the delts and spark the growth.
The Sydney Affair aka Mr. Olympia 1980, The 1980 Olympia
raised so many questions and eye brows that night, which is still the most
controversial Olympia till date. We take a look back at the history and what
happened that Olympia night.
Non-Stop Biceps Workout done with barbell curls is a great
exercise to build bigger biceps. This exercise
done with a training partner reduces the rest period considerably and hence
recruiting more muscle fibers since the rest period is relatively less. As we
all lifter know barbell curls is the bread and butter for biceps the same way
as bench press is to chest and squats is for legs.
