“Exercise for Weight Loss” is an article series detailing the most successful exercise strategies that can be used to assist in speeding up the weight loss process, and help you end-up with a sleek, toned physique once your body weight gets down to your goal-weight. 

Press for success

Pressing a barbell overhead is not something you see too many people doing in the gym – BUT  pressing the bar overhead is one of the simplest AND most effective things you could do with a barbell. It is definitely something you should consider adding to your exercise routine this year.

The press is, and always will be the best barbell exercise for upper body training, because it makes you more ‘capable’ in your daily life.

If you start out light, increase the weight in small amounts, and avoid falling over by making sure you’re balanced when you do it, it’s a really easy exercise to get right. Start just under your chin, and press up in a straight line, moving your chin out of the way of the bar. Stop with arms fully extended, and your shoulders shrugged up.

You’ll get rid of your arm flab and replace it with firm triceps in no time, and you’ll be stronger too.

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Take a look at the articles below for more information exercising for weight loss:

• Exercise for Weight Loss – Starting the year strong (part two)
• Exercise for Weight Loss – Starting the year strong (part one)
• Exercise for Weight Loss – How long should you train for?
• Exercise for Weight Loss – How to optimise your diet for building strength
• Exercise for weight loss – Why is strength training so important?
• Exercise for weight loss – Why it’s a bad idea to miss a workout
• Exercise for weight loss – Bored with your workout? Try this
• Exercise for weight loss – Get your perspective right
• Exercise for weight loss – How to get abs!
• Exercise for Weight Loss – DON’T do sport-specific workouts
• Exercise for Weight Loss – Make your exercise a non-negotiable
• Exercise for Weight Loss – Make your own ‘movie’ to check your form
• Exercise for Weight Loss – What if I get hurt?
• Exercise for Weight Loss – How to get strong without getting ‘bulky’
• Exercise for Weight Loss – Some BASIC strength guidelines
• Exercise for Weight Loss – There’s never going to be a ‘good’ time to START
• Exercise for Weight Loss – Rest days are important
• Exercise for Weight Loss – Does your exercise need a diet?
• Exercise for Weight Loss – What to do when exercise feels like a boring chore
• Exercise for Weight Loss: Can recreational activities help you lose weight?
• Exercise for Weight Loss: What counts as ‘exercise’?
• Exercise for Weight Loss: Get the right gear to avoid injury
• Exercise for Weight Loss: Get more T
• Exercise for Weight Loss: For REAL results, don’t exercise, TRAIN
• Exercise for Weight Loss: How to avoid injury
• Exercise for Weight Loss: Find a gym type that suits YOU
• Exercise for Weight Loss :Make a REAL effort, get REAL results
• Exercise for weight loss: How much is too much?
• Exercise for weight loss: Sweating – Does it equal weight loss?
• Exercise for weight loss: Digging yourself out of the ‘info avalanche’
• Exercise for weight loss: The value of stretching
• Exercise for weight loss: If you only do one exercise, do this one
• Exercise for weight loss: Your 4-minute exercise
• Exercise for weight loss: What if I skipped a few days?
• Exercise for weight loss: “How long must I exercise for?”
• Exercise for weight loss: What to do if you’re ‘older’
• Exercise for weight loss: Variety is the spice of life
• Exercise for weight loss: “But I don’t LIKE exercise!”
• Exercise for weight loss: Timing is key!
• Exercise for weight loss: Don’t take breaks in the gym
• Exercise for weight loss: Priority number one
• Exercise for weight loss: If you’re not dropping the kilos, you need to pick up the weights
• Exercise for weight loss: Get a little extra, for free
• Exercise for weight loss: Get your feet moving
• Exercise for weight loss: The ‘no equipment’ gym
• Exercise for weight loss: Walking is not sufficient exercise
• Exercise for weight loss: What sore muscles really mean
• Exercise for weight loss – Let’s start at the very beginning
• Exercise for weight loss: The single step to kick-start your journey

 

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