This type of exercise is executed lying on the bench of the apparatus in order to develop the muscles of the thighs. The legs are flexed and then the bodybuilder returns to the initial position. Executing this exercise helps develop the back segment of the thighs.
Execution: Using the parallel bars as a support, the bodybuilder inhales and then he/sne bends the arms and streches them afterwards while exhaling. This type of exercise works the dorsal muscles and also the triceps, deltoid and pectoral muscles. In order to highlight the inward line of the pectoral muscles, the body should be slightly leaned forward, the ellbows apart and the head straight. For the deltoid muscle the same exercise could be executed grabing the parallel bars palms outwards.
This exercise should be executed hanging on a fix bar with the hands shoulder length apart, lifting the body to the chin level or even higher. Tractions have an impact on the development of the biceps, flexing muscles of the forearms and on the dorsal muscle.
Research conducted by specialists in the area demonstrated that women could practice bodybuilding as well. Women who practice this sport do not aquire a masculin appearance by exagerated muscular development, but, on a contrary, they improve their health and fitness and they obtain a good muscular tonus. Bodybuilding exercise help women reshape their body, shortly after giving birth. Women who are interested in loosing weight through this type of exercise should consume a smaller amount of calories than the one they normally take in during daily activities. It is reccommended that the bodybuilding exercise be accompanied by regular running. The training should consist of 6 to 8 exercises, three times a week. Each exercise should be repeated up to 6 to 9 times.
Entering a training program should necessarily be preceded by a complete set of medical tests, tests that should be repeated periodically over the training period. The training has to begin with a preparation stage, designed to prepare the body for a sustained muscular effort. The preparation is not to include weight lifting exercises but should consist only of tractions, push-ups, genuflexions and other exercise specific for invigoration gymnastics. The preparation period lasts between two weeks and a month according to gender, age and fitness of the bodybuilder. Once this stage is completed, the second part of the training could begin. During the second stage the trainee takes up weight lifting exercises in order to get used to the correct execution of the exercises, as well as to establish the right amount of weight he/she particularly should work with. It is recommended that this part of the training consist of three sessions a week, aproximately one hour each. Three different types of exercise, out of which one is to be basic, are to be executed for each group of muscles. In case you do not aim pronounced muscular development but an improved muscular tonus or fitness, the training schedule of the second stage could be continued for years.