Weight Lifting Workouts For Athletic Players

Weight lifting workouts are a category of strength training practices that make use of gravitational pull in building muscle strength. The exercises involve gym equipment like barbell bars and dumbbells. To be an outstanding athlete you require everything but strength, dexterity and speed; but if you do your workouts and lose focus on adding strength, you might end up losing your game instead of scoring points. Weight lifting is a firm foundation of turning into an all- round player. Strength establishes everything- power production, endurance and agility; therefore, it must be the most crucial essence for any sports person. A particular level of fitness and strength is required by every athlete; most importantly, getting enough strength is what matters. The following are a few weight lifting exercises that will add power to your game.

Types of exercises by equipment

Dumbbell workouts

A set of dumbbells is used in this case. These exercises are efficient when your target is the core muscles or the stabilizing muscles

Fitness ball exercises

An exercise ball called swiss ball is the one used when. With the swiss ball, you can perform a wide range of exercises that specifically target the core muscles.

Band exercises
This type of workout makes use of a stretch tube referred to as a resistance or fitness band. A special case of their use is the restoration and development of muscle movements if one has an injury. They are cheap and portable.

Barbell exercises

Involve the use of a bar where you put various plates of weight on the extreme ends. The good thing about this exercise is that various muscles are engaged hence uniformity in muscle strength.

Types of weight lifting exercises by muscle groups

Chest workouts

These exercises are primarily done by use of a bench and barbell although they can still be performed by use of dumbbells and strength equipment. Commonly performed chest exercise is the bench press whereby you lie facing up on a bench then shove the barbell perpendicular to your chest.

Biceps workouts

The exercises are aimed at strengthening the upper arms’ muscles mainly by use of dumbbells.

Triceps workouts

 They strengthen the muscles situated behind the upper arms.

Leg workouts

There exercises are meant to strengthen the various muscle groups found in your legs: quadriceps (front thigh muscles located between your knees and hips), hamstrings (found at the back of your thighs between the knees and the hips), gluteal (buttock muscles), hip flexors (found at the sides of your hips) and the calves (located at the back of your leg, between the knee and the ankle).