upper body strength exercises ?
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Overall upper body strength?
Bench press (overhead, incline, military, etc.), dips, rows, push-ups, pull-ups.
Dead lifts and cleans are also great... but, I personally don't like the risk/reward with them.
Mess up doing a push-up and you fall to the floor. Mess up doing a clean and you could really injure yourself. back when I was training for higher level competitions I'd do them, but now that I'm just exercising to not have a heart attack... I don't really see the need.
As far as specific focus? Curls, lat pulldowns, lot of the machine stuff is for isolation lifts... there's a ton of "sculpting" lifts to do.
Biggest bang for your buck are the compound lifts though: bench press, power clean and jerk, dips.
I love using my triceps and shoulders so I do a lot of heavy reverse grip bench press, weighted dips, seated skull crushers and lots of push up. For shoulders I love military presses, dumbbell presses and battle ropes. Idk there is a lot of different stuff I like to do. My favorite exercise to date though is the tire flip, it makes everything strong.
Cootersaurous said:
I love using my triceps and shoulders so I do a lot of heavy reverse grip bench press, weighted dips, seated skull crushers and lots of push up. For shoulders I love military presses, dumbbell presses and battle ropes. Idk there is a lot of different stuff I like to do. My favorite exercise to date though is the tire flip, it makes everything strong.
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I wish my gym had tires to flip or wail on with sledgehammers... that stuff looks fun and challenging.
My old gym had battle ropes, but trainers were always using them so it was next to impossible to actually get access to them.
osubuckeye4 said:
I wish my gym had tires to flip or wail on with sledgehammers... that stuff looks fun and challenging.
My old gym had battle ropes, but trainers were always using them so it was next to impossible to actually get access to them.
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As soon as I move out of my apartment and get a house with a garage those 2 items are going in my garage.
rinat said:
Strength training slows down my punch.
The trainer purchased this simulator for our X1-PRO boxing gym, this is the best that I have tried, apart from interesting push-ups, it enhances the punch
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The trainer at my X1-PRO boxing gym threw those things in the trash.
We do our push ups on our finger tips, it enhances the punch better.
rinat said:
How push-ups on fingers and push-ups in general affect the force of a punch, I want to hear your opinion
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Strong arms, shoulders, chest and fingers.
Very important.
I do 100 every single day for many many years.
Do you play any sport?
troubleshooting said:
Strong arms, shoulders, chest and fingers.
Very important.
I do 100 every single day for many many years.
Do you play any sport?
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I have not been studying for a long time. Yes, strong hands are very important for a strong punch
rinat said:
I have not been studying for a long time. Yes, strong hands are very important for a strong punch
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Push ups on finger tips allows for a few more inches up / down and also strengthen grip and small joints in hands and fingers.
I want you to try these.
I have found that calisthenics work quite good for building functional strength . No need for something crazy for the beginning. Start with basics - different pullup variations, dips, push-ups planks, handstands and so on... For extra difficulty wear weighted vest.