How can I increase good body strength naturally?

What's up, guys? We're kicking off the incredible strength series because I know you've got more strength then you ever thought you did. The problem is that you are not looking for the right place to address it. Today we are going to start by looking at 'What are these neglected areas?

This is important to help you increase your strength in all your major lifts. Here's the thing: I'm going to show you eight ways in eight exercises to immerse yourself in this extra work so you don't have to feel that way. This is a different task to solve. 

We are talking about hands, wrists and forums. If you have weaknesses in any of these areas, you are facing major lifts. Think about it; Trying to get under the bench press and lift heavily if your wrists are too, too weak, or try to run a deadlift if you have no grip strength. I don’t consider how strong your legs can be or how strong your pull can be; If you can't hold on to the cursed bar, you can't lift so much weight. So today we will go, as I said, different areas that will allow you to throw these exercises so that it is not a completely different workout. Okay, 

First up is Chest. 

One of the most common exercises you will perform in a chest exercise is a pushup. I don't care if this is done as a preliminary exercise or as a continuation of your original practice. This idea is usually incorporated into a breast exercise.

Here's how you can change it to start working on your weaknesses. If your weakness is more in your wrist then you can push the cock, as I am showing you here. The idea is to keep the wrist fair. In other words, keep the wrists closed in this position. I don't want too much change this way, I don't want to expand too much this way. Try to keep it closed by resting it on the top of your coils instead of your hands. If you are trying to do more to push your grip strength and finger strength - hand power - more finger pushing.  Again, this is just changing the way you exercise. You will still be working on the chest. You're still going to exercise as you normally would, but you're adding to it, For the strength of your hands, in this version, the advantage to now. Next up is a great way to start adding some more hand, wrist and front work to your back workout.

All you have to do is take another common exercise and make a slight, little change to it. This time it's the pullup. Let's say you're working on your pull-ups – which you should be in any back workout, by the way – as you approach failure, as you get to your last rep, as opposed to dropping off the bar, work on that forearm and hand strength. Hang from the bar. Do what we all hang on to dead arms.

This will start burning through your forearms, through your fingers, it's going to test also your mental fortitude and toughness. That's great. That's all things you can benefit from as you're trying to get stronger. A stronger mind is just as important as stronger muscles. But try to give up from this bar until you can leave. It's just a slight, little tweak, on an already existing exercise that you should be doing in your back workouts. 

Next up is Your Biceps. 

We all know that a lot of times when people train their biceps they are also training their forearms, too. But there's a really simple way to hit the brachia radials, which is going to be one of the bigger muscle groups right here.

That's going to add to the size and strength of your forearms and it's so simple to do because all you're going to do, once again, is take an existing exercise – a curl – and just flip your grip. Move it to a reverse Carle overhand position. You'll see from this clip and footage here that obviously this area gets targeted a lot more when we just turn our grip over. You could just add a couple extra sets to the end of your workout and hit this area adequately to start making an impact. If you're a follower of ATHLEANX you know it's important not to just do strength work, but to also pair that up with conditioning work. For me, one of my favorite, all-time conditioning practices is a rope. For a lot of different reasons.

One, we can get our heart rate up very quickly, we can burn a lot of calories, we can become more athletic doing it, but also, we get a heavy dose of forearm work here as well. I can see that I have to work my wrist while jumping rope here. In fact, the lion's share of this skill is how fast and how integrated you can be with the rotation of your wrist. You're going to get that turnover. You're actually getting forearm suspiration and probation as well as just getting some of that general motion through the wrists. It's going to help improve the endurance of these muscles here that you're going to need, that will pay off as you start doing more of your heavy lifting. Of course, these also apply to your ABS training. 

There are so many different exercise options, as anybody that even has our Six Pack Promise will tell you, hundreds, if not thousands of exercises you can do for your abs. but there are some that you can do to preferentially hit this weak area again. The first would be a cliffhanger plank. Don’t just make a regular plank, especially if it’s not that hard for you either. Increase the difficulty of the exercise so you can get more benefit for your abs, but at the same time, place a lot of the strain and work on The strength of your hands and the flexors of your fingers.  Try to stay in this cliffhanger position while you do the plank. Again, it's kind of a two-for-one benefit. Simultaneously better ABS and hamstrings.

 

If you want to work more on those weak wrists of yours, here's another option where you can keep your hands in that neutral position – your wrists in that neutral position – knuckles down, and try to do this seated tuck hold. This is an incredibly tough ab exercise, but at the same time you're getting the benefit of getting that extra, added wrist work that you wouldn't have to really Schedule, or engrave a separate time for. 

We all know, when you're busy you're going to forget that part. You're going to work on the abs and you're not going to work on your wrists or hamstrings. It obviously is so important to that overall goal that we're trying to have here, of increasing our strength. Now let's get back to the workouts again.

Let's say triceps are on board. Okay, no problem. Triceps pushdowns. Again, very common exercise. I'm trying not to create a zillion different exercises for you guys that you have to now start figuring out how you're going to do. As a matter of fact, this is an exercise you're probably already doing, but with this tweak, you'll now be able to incorporate some of that extra added work that we're really stressing here.

So on a triceps pushdown, instead of going straight down and ending it at the bottom of that rep, try to go for that little, additional wrist curl to get those forearm flexors working now. So again, push down at the very bottom against your resistance, you're going to do a little bit of a wrist curl. You're just going to work that underside here at the bottom of the forearm.

You want to work the opposite side, the extensors? No problem. A lot of times you'll probably do a reverse grip push down to hit your triceps at a slightly different angle, in a slightly different way. We could do the same thing here. Do the underhand version of the tricep pushdown. At the very bottom, stretch these wrists just like that. We're getting that extra, connected job. That's the importance here of this entire video. Extra added work without a lot of extra, added effort, or without a lot of extra time carved out of your day to do it. 

Moving right along to shoulders. Again, another common exercise that we can tweak slightly is to start accumulating some more added volume. This time, all you're going to do is set your wrists into slight extension. That's it.

So when you're doing your side, lateral raises or you're doing a bent over raise; no matter what exercise you're doing – here is showing the side lateral raise – you're going to just increase the activation of your forearm extensors, get more strength in there, build more endurance in your forearm extensors, get a stronger grip because it changes the way you practice.

I'm not talking about abandoning the whole idea that I've preached here so many times, ditching the concept of pouring the pitchers. That's not good for your shoulders. I'm talking about continuing to have your thumbs raised higher than your pinkies at the top, except the wrist positioning is now more into this slight extension.

That's what you're going to need to build more of that forearm strength and still get an effective workout and a safe workout for your shoulders. Last, but certainly not least, when we get to our leg training – you probably knew I was going to go in this direction – if you're deadlifting, try to do deadlifts without straps. I know it can be a shock to anyone, especially those who started deadlifting with straps.

It is one of my biggest pet peeves. Before you even try to lift the bar, you're wrapping straps all around it. How about you do something different? How about you deadlift – which is a great thing – but you do it without straps so that you're building your own ability to hold that bar as you get stronger? You're forcing your hands and your forearms to become stronger as your legs become stronger, and as your ability to do that exercise becomes better.

That is one of the best ways for you to naturally increase the strength – I'm talking about vice grip strength – of your hands as you do this exercise. That will translate to not just a deadlift, but virtually every other exercise that you do. Wait! There's more! I've got a bonus one for you here that's going to make a lot of personal trainers that watch this channel very happy.

This can be a bit of a wake-up call for those who use personal trainers. I promise you it's the truth. This is one of the most effective things you can do. This is racking and start carrying your own elite weight. I promise you, if you start taking your dumbbells out yourself and putting them back yourself in between every single set, and changing out your plates – putting them on the bar, taking them off the bar – all of that extra work, as you can see me doing here, is a lot of free added work for your forearms and your hand strength.

It is this extra volume that you can accumulate that you're not right now because you're letting someone else do the work for you. That will allow you to do a lot more for your forearm and hand strength al faster. I promise you it will help you a lot. Trainers, you're welcome. So there you go, guys.

There are eight exercises and one bonus to help you start getting that strength you've been looking for, by starting to look in places maybe you've never looked. That's the idea here. You cannot overlook those areas that you deem unimportant by focusing on the only things that you do think are important because those important lifts, those big lifts, will cheat on yourself if you don't start looking for the places you need.

In this video, I'm just starting to scratch the surface of those areas that we need to start focusing on. One thing I'll never do here, guys, just tell you the things that you think you want to hear. I'm going to tell you the things I think you need to hear, and this is just one example of that. If you found this blog, it helps to make sure to leave your comments below.

If you're looking for a complete training system that never overlooks the things that you may never think of – because I know how important they are to the overall goal, I know where you want to get to, I know where you might be starting, and I know where you might be trying to get – I'm going to Make sure I don't ABS you on the way. I'm going to fill in the gaps with the things that I think you need to have, and hear, and do in order to get there. In the meantime, tell me what else you want to see me cover here in our strength series and I will do my best to do that in the weeks ahead. All right, guys. See you later.