The variety of sports simulators can confuse a novice athlete. The choice of sports equipment should begin with determining which muscle group needs training and which simulator can solve this problem.
Instructions
Step 1
The range of modern sports equipment is impressive in its variety and allows you to find an athletic physique both in an equipped gym and at home. But before you start training in the gym or purchase sports equipment for home exercises, you should thoroughly figure out which muscle groups this or that simulator is intended for and what tasks it will have to solve.
Step 2
To the simulators designed to influence the calf, thigh, gluteal muscles, strengthening the joints and ligaments of the lower extremities and at the same time training the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, include varieties of sports cardiac systems. These are treadmills, exercise bikes, steppers, elliptical trainers (orbit tracks). In addition, for a deeper study of the leg muscles, power trainers are used with the ability to adjust the load: platforms that allow you to perform leg presses; block trainers.
Step 3
The following types of simulators are suitable for working out the muscles of the press: all kinds of benches with adjustable tilt angle; rowing machine simulating rowing with the ability to adjust the applied forces; "Roman chair" - a simulator with a seat and support bolsters for the legs; vertical walls. Most abdominal machines also provide simultaneous loads on the muscles of the upper extremities.
Step 4
To train a group of pectoral muscles, strength simulators are mainly used. These include the "butterfly" simulator, which also exerts a load on the muscles of the arms; various crossovers; bench press in a lying, sitting and half-sitting position; lever and weight block trainers “Hammer. An elliptical trainer and a rowing machine are suitable as a cardio trainer for working out the muscles of the chest.
Step 5
Triceps training is performed, as a rule, with the help of block trainers that have the ability to adjust the weight and various vertical racks-bars. The main load on the biceps is provided by exercises with a barbell and dumbbells. The biceps are also developed with free weight exercises or a barbell, and the Scott bench is most often used as a simulator, which has a palm rest and frame tilt adjustment.
Step 6
The back consists of several muscle subgroups, therefore, for its training, perhaps the largest number of strength trainers is used: all kinds of block trainers with adjustable load; simulator "butterfly", "Roman chair"; simulators with a T-shaped traction, simulating pulling the bar to the stomach; benches with an adjustable angle of inclination and footrests; rowing machine and all types of expander.
