Your back too, it's your choice to have a bad back and cause yourself to slip a few disks. I'm just going to say it, if you're stupid enough to lift that box or that log the wrong way or if you know it's too heavy or it is too heavy and you won't put it down until you're done, you're going to responsible for your own problems. And if you're so out of shape that if you bend over and it hurts your back, well you have a lot to rethink, such as all of that deep frying and those three thousand seven hundred eighty five visits to McDonald's in the past ten years.
Strong legs provide a strong back and good knees and a good back. Look at Arnold here in that picture, that guy will probably never have any knee or back problems for the rest of his life if you think about it. Don't worry though, to keep a good back you don't have to have a regular deadlift of over eight hundred pounds.
You're good if you just stick to things like regular squats, regular deadlifting, regular rows, and things that require your back will keep you in better shape than most people. Unless some epidemic started and America somehow miraculously lost most of it's obesity. Wouldn't that be a sign of the second coming.
I love back exercises and leg exercises. In fact, to maintain a strong back and legs, you don't even need a barbell. Go ahead, a lot of people use dumbbells and just straight up body weight. Now if you want to have the strength and results weightlifting provides, lift weights. If you do this body weight, your have to work out each group of muscles in a different way. But the thing is with deadlifting and squats, is that two exercises work out your legs and back at the same time. Squats you are required to hold the barbell on your shoulders, requiring back and core strength. I covered the core topic, so no worries on that. In squats with a barbell, you back has to hold that up as well as your legs have to push it up.
So next up in the deadlift, your really working out your legs and your back all in all. Because the bar goes on the ground instead of on your shoulders, you can usually up the weight but about twenty to thirty five percent. That's just my estimate.
Because the deadlift requires you to straighten at the waist and knees, you are working out everything down low, and everything up top in the back. This is a pulling exercise and not a pushing, so it's the back, and it's the legs.
The deadlift saves so many people from bad backs and knees because of how it works you out. You can also do this exercise with dumbbells as well. Just presume the same position required, you just hold the dumbbells in a hammer position and stand up. I like the barbell personally a whole lot more since I'm pretty young and I can still lift over three hundred pounds without an issue. When I'm not using the dinky back porch bar that is, when I pay a visit to the gym.
Also, don't overwork yourself on these exercises when you start out, because you're going to hurt yourself. You really need to edge your way into it. No more than progression by five pounds a week until you're at a comfortable weight, and when that weight gets easy, you move to a heavier set.
The legs themselves are among that of the strongest muscles in the human body. I've seen people do hip lifts where they put a super strong belt around their hips, chain a barbell to themselves and pick twenty four hundred pounds up an off the ground without an issue. But those guys still work out their back, just saying.
Your back and your legs are the strongest areas on the human body, if they're weak, they'll serve you poorly, if they're strong, they'll serve you very well, if you're Arnold, well I don't know. Just work out your muscles because it really helps in health and avoiding injury and being strong.
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