Key Points/Skills of Weight Training
When you're at the gym or where ever you may be as you exercise, you should keep one of two key points in mind; Quality over Quantity. This means that you may be benching over 200 pounds, but if your form is poor, it won't nearly work as well as a weight lighter if performed properly. It's a common mistake all beginners do. We all want to find the heaviest weight and lift it thinking we're strong, when in reality, we're just making fools of ourselves. Let's say pick up a 30 pund dumbbell and start curling it but you're swinging the dumbbell to lift it up, that's doing nothing. However if you pick up a 20 pound dumbbell and you're curling it perfectly, that's how you're going to build muscle. By performing the exercise properly.
As I mentioned above, form is also very important during exercises, it goes hand and hand with Quality over Quantity. The other best way to get the maximum effect of lifting weights is to make sure you have proper form, a full range of motion and are iscolating the targeted muscle. You don't want to be moving around a lot when you're doing exercises that should involve only the movement of one limb. The purpose of focusing on one muscle during as exercise is to focus on that muscle, dont involve other ones that don't need to be used. Swinging the weight is half and half. If you're swinging the weight while you're on your first set and the first couple reps, the weight it too heavy and you should find a better weight. However if you're on your last set and couple reps, you can get away with swining the weight up, or using your back to lift the weight ONLY if it's the conditions I mentioned.
Here's an example of proper bench press form:
As I mentioned above, form is also very important during exercises, it goes hand and hand with Quality over Quantity. The other best way to get the maximum effect of lifting weights is to make sure you have proper form, a full range of motion and are iscolating the targeted muscle. You don't want to be moving around a lot when you're doing exercises that should involve only the movement of one limb. The purpose of focusing on one muscle during as exercise is to focus on that muscle, dont involve other ones that don't need to be used. Swinging the weight is half and half. If you're swinging the weight while you're on your first set and the first couple reps, the weight it too heavy and you should find a better weight. However if you're on your last set and couple reps, you can get away with swining the weight up, or using your back to lift the weight ONLY if it's the conditions I mentioned.
Here's an example of proper bench press form: