Use Fitness Weights to Make Your Body Indestructable

Use Fitness Weights to Make Your Body Indestructable

Fitness weights can play a major role in not only improving ones fitness but also in the prevention and rehabilitation of injuries. Many of the fitness routines that physicians prescribe for rehabilitation require the use of light weights. Hence fitness weights are perfect for these exercises because they are lighter than normal weights and can be fastened to the body to leave the hands free. Many common injuries occur because the small, stabilising muscles surrounding joints are not developed to the same degree as their bigger, external counterparts. Consequently while the larger muscles are able to lift heavy weights, the smaller, more internal muscles are unable to properly control the movement of the joints when lifting such heavy weights and thus tendons and cartilladge can become fatigued and or injured.

Because shoulders are used in almost every upper body exercise they are prone to injury. Most if not all of the exercises that are recommended to rehabilitate the shoulder can be performed as preventative measures.

The L-fly exercises are fantastic exercises that can be performed quickly and easily and will increase the stability and therefore the effectiveness of even the hardest working shoulders. They are described as follows.

Stand with your elbows tucked to your sides and your forearms raised to horizontal with your palms facing each other. Hold a fitness band or spring with both hands. While keeping the elbows tucked against your sides, rotate the hands and forearms away from each other. This is called external rotation.

A second alternative is to lie on ones uninjured side and perform the same rotating movement with the injured limb. Use Fitness weights in place of the fitness spring or band.

A lot of weight lifting focuses on the chest muscles and pushing forward. If adequate attention is not given to the back muscles the chest and shoulder muscles become increasingly tight and pull the shoulders forward. In this position the ball of the shoulder joint will not rotate properly within the shoulder socket. As such it is necessary to always stretch the chest and front shoulders muscles as well as perform the following retraction exercises. These retraction exercises will keep the back muscles strong and balanced with the chest muscles.

From the standing position described above, with forearms horizontal, palms facing each other and elbows tucked to your side, raise both elbows until the upper arms (from shoulder to elbow) are also horizontal, forearms facing forward and palms facing down. Keeping the upper arms horizontal raise the forearms until the fingers point to upward and palms face forward. Use fitness weights as resistance.

While lifting big gym weights will develop the big, visible muscles, it may neglect the smaller, less visible muscles. Using fitness weights to perform the above exercises daily, if not twice daily, will help to maintain the proper, healthy operation of ones shoulder joints. This will in turn allow the larger muscles to work optimally.

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