Hoodia Gordonii

No matter what type of workout you are doing always remember to do warm up exercises before and cool down after your workout. This will avoid injuries and cramps during your main workout. You must take care of your muscles if you don’t want them to get ripped or strained while exercising.

Let’s take a closer look at some perfect exercises that will take your weight lifting to a higher level. Of course this is only a selection. Do a search for these exercises on the web to find images and videos if you feel that the instruction are not clear.

Handstand Pushups
This size building push up workouts exercise is best done with a spotter so that you do not get hurt during execution. Start with a typical handstand, feet against the wall. Look straight ahead and using the control of your arms, lower your body towards the floor until the top of your head touches it. Next use your arms to push your body up again. This exercise will help strengthen and build the upper arms and shoulder muscles.

One Arm Pushup
If you hear the theme music from ‘Rocky’ suddenly playing in your head, don’t be surprised. This is a simple push up… with only one hand on the floor. This is really for the strongest amongst us but you can make it even harder if you keep also just one leg on the floor! Like a regular push up this exercise will develop strong shoulders, pecs and triceps.

Door Pull-Up
What you need is a towel, hold both ends, hang it around the top of a strong door which allows you to hang on the door. Then pull up as high as you can and lower your body slowly. Be careful not to hurt yourself and keep the door in one piece.

One Legged Squat
This exercise is a bit of a challenge, but well worth the effort. Start by standing with one leg held out in front of you with your arms stretched straight ahead. Keep your head straight and do a one leg squat. Hold your position for a few seconds -upper leg parallel with the floor- then get back to starting position. Besides building your leg’s muscles this will also sharpen your balance.

These are advanced exercises which will certainly build bigger muscles. It is very important to start with decent warm up activities.