Weight Training Equipment
Apparatus for Weight-Training
Equipment for weight, strength or resistance
training workouts, includes: weights (freeweights, dumbells, hand-weights,
barbells, body bars), machines with weights attached, weight-lifting accesories
like gloves, waist belts,wrist and ankle supports, along with specialist
weight or gym benches.
Weight
Lifting Equipment
Types of Weights
Weight Lifting Gloves
Weight-Training For Muscle Fitness
Lifting weights - the basic resistance-training
exercise method - works a number of muscle groups in various areas of
the body. It builds specific muscles in the arms, chest, shoulders, back
and abdomen.
Arms
Weight training strengthens arm muscles like
the biceps and triceps. The biceps, or biceps brachii, is the big muscle
that runs along the front of the arm, flexing the arm and turning the
palm upwards. The triceps run along the back of the arm and move the arm
in towards the body.
Chest
The pecs or 'pectorals', which are also strengthened
by weight-training, are the large muscles stretched across the upper chest
in the front of the body. The pectoral muscles are heavily used to flex
and rotate the arms, move the shoulders and for pushing and pulling.
Shoulders and Back
Weight-training exercises (eg. cable row
and cable press) also work the deltoids in the shoulders, along with the
Trapezius and latissimus dorsi muscles (lats) in the back.
Abdomen and Butt
Strength-training weight exercises are also
used to strengthen muscle-groups in the abdomen and buttocks. Running
down the front of the body is the rectus abdominis, also known as the
upper and lower abs. The rectus abdominis is the muscle closest to the
surface and this is the muscle you can see when you develop your abs.
Toning the rectus abdominis gives you the "six pack" look. The
main butt muscles are the gluteals (glutes), such as the Gluteus Maximus,
Gluteus Medius and Glutus Minimus. All these muscles are toned and strengthened
by weight-based resistance workouts.
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