| Arm Yourself with Proper Form |
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| by Diet Detective Editorial Staff | |
| Sunday, 02 July 2006 | |
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How you lift is vastly more important than how much you can lift. Here’s why you should value performance over pounds. Weight lifting, perhaps more than any other activity, requires diligent attention to form to prevent injury. Ironically, though, most people worry more about how much weight they're able to lift rather than how they're lifting it. The "cheat curl" is particularly dangerous. Many lifters doing bicep curls with free weights use their back muscles to lift the weight instead of their arm muscles, causing them to rock or swing their bodies backward, which leaves them susceptible to lower back injuries. To do a proper biceps curl, your feet should be hip-width apart, buttocks tucked and abdominals tight, head facing forward and aligned with your spine, torso erect, upper arms still and elbows close to your body. Bookmark:            Trackback(0)
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