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Written by Diet Detective Editorial Staff
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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.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 July 2006 )
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