Although intense exercise during hot weather is not advisable, we can do fitness exercises in an air-conditioned room without fear. And how and with what to exercise? Ankle and wrist weights are currently popular.
If you're already proficient in your workouts and are in pretty good physical shape, then maybe it's time to think about some extra weight when exercising to further strengthen your workout, and therefore your muscles?
To make your workout less boring. Opt for ankle and wrist weights
Exercising with weights is becoming more and more popular, not only in professional gyms or in classes run by qualified trainers. If you exercise yourself at home, you can also do a workout with weights. Recently, so-called ankle and wrist weights have become fashionable exercise accessories. Why are they so popular? They are accessories that provide an effective enhancement to a regular workout and can even be used when performing basic gymnastics exercises. However, professional trainers and professional athletes do not recommend them to people who are just starting out with physical activity. Why? Because if we are not very well prepared physically, we can strain our muscles.
Training with weights. What benefits does it offer?
The greatest benefit of training with weights is the strengthening of arm and leg muscles. There are different types of leg and arm weights available in sports shops. How do we choose the most suitable ones for us? If you attend group training sessions, it's best to ask your trainer for advice, as he or she is probably already familiar with your training capabilities and can see which body parts you still need to work on. If you are training on your own, it is a good idea to seek advice on accessories on sports forums, where experts comment on them.
Ankle and wrist weights can be used during exercise instead of traditional training dumbbells, which we have to hold on our own. The ankle and wrist weights can be easily attached to the body with elastic Velcro straps. In addition, they are not too heavy - the weight of such additional weights usually ranges from 0.5 kg to 2 kg. Their attachments can easily be adjusted to fit any body.
Will they work well during any exercise?
However, the question arises, can such weights be used during any exercise? In answering this question, we must remember that the main purpose of weights is to strengthen muscles, so they should be used mainly during workouts that strengthen our body. Ankle and wrist weights work well as a link in training where we do body weight exercises with weight training. Buying such weights and training with them is recommended especially for people for whom traditional training no longer works. It has become too monotonous and they do not see the effects of exercise.
Ankle and wrist weights are a great way to add variety to existing exercises. But in a dynamic exercise situation, such as jump squats, it is better to dispense with weights. Why? Because any skips with weights on the ankles and exercises that require excessive dynamics (jumping) are unfortunately quite risky for our joints. An exercise for which you can use extra weights is the so-called swallow. It is important to do alternating arm and leg raises slowly and precisely, and you will definitely feel the extra weights.
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