How To Lift

This is a link to help guide you to proper lifting. This is primarly about your safety. You are to preform these rules the whole time you are in the weight room.

Safety Guidelines

An ab workout is very important part of lifting. Your core is one of the primary muscles used for all lifting techniques.

This is a video to show you some of the varieties of the different ab workouts that there are. This specific video is to show the variety of ab workouts you can do at home without equipment.

1. Bench press

This is a lift to build your biceps.

The performance of this lift is done by lying on the bench, holding the bar above your head, slowly brining the bar dow to touch your chest, and then pressing it back straight back up to the rack.

2. Squat

This is a lift to build leg muscles.

This lift is preformed by standing with the bar lying across your shoulders, taking a step away from the rack, squatting to a 90 degree angle (by the knees), and the pushing the weight back up by standing up, and then taking a  step back forward to rack the weight bar.

3. Dead Lift

This is a full body muscle builder.

THis lift is preformed while the weight bar is lying on the ground, you walk up to the bar, grab it with both hands and in a “squatting” position, then stand up straight, and then slowly lay the bar back on the ground.

Those are the 3 primary lifts that you will be tested on in this class to show your working progress. There will be other lifts mixed into you daily workout to help you build these muscles in different ways.

Although lifting is fun for most people, we all need a little bit of motivation from day to day. Your fist task will be to sit down and think about where you want to be at the end of this class and then write down your goals. Make these goals reasonable. You will be able to look back on these goals on days where you don’t feel like working hard.