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Clean & Jerk/ Shoulder Press/ Deadlifting /Female Weightlifters April 20, 2005

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Basic rules of strength training

  •  Essential workout can be executed in less than half an hour in any space that is a two-arm-span wide, be it your bedroom, office, kitchen, bathroom, parking lot. That is you would not need membership to any fitness authority to get fit.
  • Essential workout is the common denominator between all levels of training. That is if you have never worked out before or if you are on the top of advanced athleticism, your essential work out should consist of three portions one for each of these parts of the body: legs, trunk (torso), and shoulders, in the order of their priority to sound physical well being.
  • The order of exercises will be in reverse to the order of priority. That is shoulders will be trained first, then trunk and finally the legs. Why?

Common mistakes 

(a) Many people start warm up for leg exercises by warming up the legs heavily and end up by serious shoulder and back injuries because those weaker parts in relation to the strong legs cannot stand a sudden heavy workout of the legs before getting the former well prepared in tone and perfusion. 

(b) many others would warm up for heavy shoulder lifting without executing essential workout of the torso and legs before ancillary shoulder training and incur serious back injury.

Thus essential workout is a prerequisite to ALL ANCILLARY exercises. The latter encompass all and any exercise that is not essential, i.e., ancillary exercises are those with weights, with high skill, and those that intend to advance rather than to maintain physical fitness. 

(c) Advanced athletes are more vulnerable to injuries than cautious beginners when the former omit essential training as a prerequisite for any workout. Many of the most serious injuries to the back, shoulders, and knees are easily preventable by religiously executing essential workout every time intense training is involved. Even a simple daily activity such as lifting a child, a grocery bag, or bending on a sink to reach a faucet would result in serious injury in those who habitually omit essential workout.

(d) Essential workout though modest, inexpensive, requires little time is most invaluable for all and everybody and they could suffice as sole routine of workout. Moreover, essential workout could get you remarkable strength that exceeds that of heavily trained athletes.

 

 

 

 

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