More and more people are realizing the need to exercise. Some of these people are high intensity athletes, while others are part of an ever-increasing percentage of our population that are overweight. Regardless of your reason, I challenge you to focus on the priorities of your own workouts. Whether you need to lose weight, rehabilitate an injury, enhance your strength or increase the amount of competition you offer in sports, this site will have the accurate information you need to achieve your personal health and fitness goals. Through proper execution of purposeful exercises, along with the experience of a trained professional, we can reach your goals together.

The arms section of the workout library includes exercises for the major muscles in the biceps, triceps and forearms. At the top, situated at the front of the arm, you will find the biceps, coraco-brachialis, and the brachialis make up the major flexors and supinators of the arm which act to bend the elbow and rotate the hand. The bicep muscle is made up of a long head and a short head, which descend from beneath the pectoralis major and the deltoid muscles (this is important to understand because in some cases the bicep is responsible for shoulder stability in up to 20% of pressing motions and requires strength to do its job). While most any curling exercise will work the bicep muscles, you can isolate certain areas for aesthetic reasons, or to strengthen weaknesses. Both heads of the muscle can be worked with exercises such as barbell curls, cable curls, and preacher curls. Yet, by simply using a wide grip you can prioritize the short head, or you can use a narrow grip which works more of the long head of the muscle. Assisting the flexor muscles of the arm is another muscle called brachio-radialis which is attached above and below the elbow joint and recruits muscles in the forearms in certain curling motions such as hammer curls or supinating d.b. curls which involve a neutral grip. Opposing the bicep and flexor muscles, and situated on the back of the arm, are the triceps muscles which, along with the subanconeus muscle, work to extend the arm. The triceps muscle is composed of 3 heads: The long head which descends from between the lat and teres muscles, can be easily activated with neutral grip exercises such as d.b. kickbacks, dips and d.b. skull crushers. Also, because the long head of the tricep muscle assists the lat and teres muscles when the arm is in extension, it can  be strengthened with exercises such as straight arm cable pressdowns. Along with the long head of the tricep you will  find a lateral head (which runs on the outside of the arm) and is easily recruited with exercises involving a prone, or palm down grip, such as tricep pressdowns with a straight bar, overhead cable tricep press and close grip push ups. Finally, the medial head which arises from the top of the humerous (long bone in upper arm), and lies under the bicep, can be reached with exercises which cause the elbows to travel perpendicular from the body and force the most flexion in the arm such as lying elbow extensions, or the cable overhead french press.More and more people are realizing the need to exercise. Some of these people are high intensity athletes, while others are part of an ever-increasing percentage of our population that are overweight. Regardless of your reason, I challenge you to focus on the priorities of your own workouts. Whether you need to lose weight, rehabilitate an injury, enhance your strength or increase the amount of competition you offer in sports, this site will have the accurate information you need to achieve your personal health and fitness goals. Through proper execution of purposeful exercises, along with the experience of a trained professional, we can reach your goals together.