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Building Muscles









Chin ups - Grip bar with underhand grip (palms facing you) and pull yourself up until your chin is above the bar. Repeat for one minute and count how many repetitions you could do. Do three sets of one-minute chin ups each with a minute's ap in between.


















Push ups - Lie face down on floor, legs together and fingers pointing straight ahead. Push body off floor, your weight resting on hands and toes. Keep your back straight and your butt tucked in. Lower body till chest touches floor. Repeat as many times as possible in one minute. Count the repetitions and do three sets.













Sit ups - Lie face up on floor, knees bent and hands behind head. Curl up to sitting position with feet flat on floor. Return to the original position and repeat as many times as possible in one minute. Count the repetitions and do three sets.











Back lifts - Lie face down and tuck your feet under a bed or some support and place your hands behind the head. Arch back by lifting your chest off the floor. Repeat and count repetitions. Do three sets.











Bench steps - Stand in front of a bench or a stair that is about a foot high. Step on to it and step off it with the right leg. Count the repetitions in one minute and repeat for the _left leg. Do three sets for each leg.


















Chair dips - Grasp a chair, keeping arms straight and feet slid forward so that your weight rests on your
arms.

Lower body as far as possible and return to starting position. Repeat for one minute, count repetitions and do three sets.











Coffee grinder - Support body on floor with extended right hand and right leg. Move body in a circular motion for one minute with right arm as pivot. Repeat for the left arm and do three sets.






You have now worked the major muscles of the body. These exercises are to be done on ALTERNATE DAYS so that the body gets time to recover from the strain.

The trick to strength training is to 'overload' the muscle, to work it until it fails. The human body is such that it adapts to overloading by adapting to face the extra workload the next time round. Our muscles cells react to overload by increasing in size to match the larger cells, thus increasing the overall size of the muscle. Something called 'neural adaptation' also increases the size of the muscles initially. Usually, the bigger the muscle, the stronger it is.

Weight Training in the gym is the best method of building muscles. But, hey! Don't rush to the gym as yet, because if you are below sixteen years of age, you must avoid working out with weights.

The alternative is to do freehand exercises, which are a close second to weight training in efficient muscle building. 'Calisthenics', as these exercises are called, help you build strength rapidly. Select a group of seven exercises that will overload your muscles from arms and shoulders to leg muscles, as described in the illustrations above. Do them as described with a one-minute gap in between sets. HOWEVER, do not get disheartened if you cannot exercise continuously for one minute. As your strength improves, you will be able to slide through these routines.

Do not forget to warm up before doing the strength training exercises and also do not forget to stretch and cool down after the session of strength training exercises is over. I hope you have checked with your Doctor if you are fit enough to do strength-training exercises.


last updated on: 2/17/2021

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