We can perform several different exercises targeting different muscle groups in our body with the use of several equipment. These equipment are mainly targeted for assistance in training in both strength building and muscle building exercises.
The best tool for upper body exercise and strength training. You can pull yourself up with any angle of grip. Different grips and hand positions can effect different muscles. You can pull yourself up until your chin is over the bar. They will help you effectively exercise your upper body using your own weight.
Muscle used: Trunk, arms, shoulder, core, pelvic, arms and forearms.
Leg Extension: Lifting the weight up with your quads. This machine is the perfect to use during rehabilitation from an injury or during strength training of your quads. This portion of the machine isolates the quadriceps muscles on the front of the thigh and focuses on building their strength and definition more effectively compared to squats or lunges.
Muscle used: Quadriceps
Leg Curl: Laying on your stomach and pacing the floor, lifting the legs upwards towards your lower back. The leg curl portion targets the hamstrings muscles on the back of the thigh responsible for knee flexion. Strong hamstrings are crucial for power, stability and injury prevention.
Muscles used: Biceps femoris, gracilis, sartorius, gastrocnemius.
Stand in the hyper-extension platform in an angled position. Facing downwards, move your upper body up and down.
Back extensions or hyper-extensions, are an isolation exercise with a closed kinetic chain. They may be considered a body-weight exercise depending on the use of an additional resistance into the movement. You can hold a weight close to your chest to increase the intensity of the workout.
This exercise ensures stability and strength of the erector spinae muscles, along with
an improvement in the range of motion for the back in an extended form.
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