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Ever find your shoulders aching and paining after doing some heavy lifting, like rearranging furniture or lifting boxes? it’s probably because of the lack of flexibility in your shoulders.  Shoulders are probably the most neglected muscles groups in your body, they are the main stabilizer when we throw, press or bringing elbows to our body. With our tendency to sit in a forward hunched position, it can ruin our posture and create an overly dominant frontside of the body. Working out your rear shoulder will counteract this influence, pulling the shoulder back into position for improved posture. A well-rounded shoulder exercise that includes both of your front and back shoulders will increase your strength and also decrease the amount of load your shoulder joints have to bear to make your shoulders more flexible, coordinated, and conditioned to handle stress. Deltoid and Trapezius You probably will be surprised that a lot of shoulder exercises involve your back. The trapezi...

A balance ball trainer helps you coordinate muscles and nerves to balance on the type of unstable surface you can easily encounter in real life. Why do the upper body exercises on a balance ball trainer?  Your body will never get bored because these exercises will constantly keep you on your toes, and as long as your muscles don’t get bored, your body will change.   The  balance training  workouts will enhance whatever fitness routine you may be done by adding a cross-training element. Not only will you improve your balance, but you’ll also increase your strength, especially core strength, and tone up a variety of muscles. Try these five fun upper body exercises on a RitFit  balance ball trainer  with resistance bands! Side Raise on a Balance Ball Trainer Stand on the balance ball trainer with bands in each hand. Maintaining a slight bend in the elbows, raise your arms out to the side until they are parallel with the ground. Pause, and th...

Your muscles broadly fit into two categories: stabilizing muscles and movement muscles. As the name suggested, stabilizing muscles stabilize your body while movement muscles move your body. Stabilizing muscles such as your deep abdominal and back muscles stabilize your spine in very position including standing, kneeling, seated, side-lying, face down or up.  Weak postural muscles cannot support your body and as a result, you might develop chronic pain. By focusing on your core muscles, you’ll stabilize your spine so you can move safely and build strength within your torso muscles, specifically your deep postural muscles. What Does Balance Training Improve? You’ll strengthen your core muscles You’ll improve your posture. Good posture requires strength. You’ll sharpen your nervous system You’ll fine-tune your sensory system You’ll decrease your changes of injury. Improving your balance skills is not that hard and you can perform balance and stability training ...

Strong arms  are important for almost every upper body movement and your triceps are often the heavy lifters. The  triceps  are essential for building upper body strength and helping with movement in your shoulders and elbows. Increasing triceps strength brings stability to your shoulders and arms, and you will have shapely, toned arms to go with your tight top.  The best way to build strong, firm triceps is to choose the exercises that hit all those muscle fibers from every angle. Sharing four effective bench tricep workout with you that you can train at home with a bench! 1. Tricep Kickback As an isolation exercise, dumbbell kickbacks allow you to train the triceps without involving other muscles and activate about 88% of your triceps. Bodybuilders and aspiring trainees who need to develop the size and appearance to fit a standard would benefit a lot from this exercise.  2. Skull Crusher Another isolation exercise to maximize the t...

Resistance training is any exercise that causes the muscles to contract against an external resistance, the external resistance could be dumbbells, rubber bands, or your own body-weight.   Resistance training is highly effective and helps you build strength and muscle.  Do you know it is the best training program for your cardiovascular system? It is important to recognize that it is not necessary to run a 10k or take a yoga class or perform daily sessions on a treadmill to enhance your cardiovascular system. Almost every form of exercise other than proper strength training carries with it a good chance of undermining your health because your joints and connective tissue might not survive your efforts. One of the beauties of performing   resistance band   training is that you don’t need to buy or store heavy equipment or drive to a gym. Every exercise that can be done on a piece of exercise equipment or with free weights can be repla...

Doing regular pushups can help increase your body's production of Human Growth Hormone (HGH), which is responsible for building muscle mass.  Exercise Bench  elevated pushups are variations that allow you to make your workout easier or more challenging depending either your upper body or lower body is elevated above the rest of the body.  By changing the angle of your pushups, you will work for different muscle groups. These kinds of pushups are a useful addition to regular pushups and they can enhance your exercise routine or help you progress to more challenging versions.  1. Incline Pushup Incline pushup  is a great starting point to begin your pushup journey.  Always remember to concentrate on the form when performing  incline pushup s. Keep your elbows tucked close to your body and your shoulder blades are drawn back and down.  Muscles worked: chest, shoulders 2. Hands-Elevated Pushup An ea...