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Fitness for beginners: Get to know your training moves

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May 23, 2025

There is the most common phenomenon in the gym. Most people are practicing low-quality exercises and practicing randomly in the gym. They don’t know the principles and key points of the movements. There is no doubt that this is bad!

  No doubt, it is bad!   Novice fitness: know your training movements!

  Do you know the name of the movement you do?

  Its resistance direction?

  What are the specific joints and muscles involved?

  What are these muscle joints, where are the starting and ending points, what functions are there, and what roles they play in this movement?

  For novices, understanding these basic knowledge will help you operate the movements more clearly

  Use the bench press example that everyone loves to practice the most ""

  Resistance direction: vertical down

  Movement plane: horizontal plane

  Operation type: upper limb push

  Use the bench press example that everyone loves to practice the most ""

  Resistance direction: vertical down

  Movement plane: horizontal plane

  Operation type: upper limb push

Participating in joints: Bench press is a multi-joint coordinated action, mainly shoulders and elbows! The roles of the shoulder in bench press are flexion (narrow grip) and horizontal adduct (wide grip). The elbow plays the role of stretching!

  The muscles involved include: pectoralis major, deltoid anterior bundle, and triceps!

  The roles they play:

  Peacher muscle (activation muscle): responsible for flexion (narrow grip) or horizontal adductive shoulder joint (Wide grip)

  Angular deltoid muscle (coordinated muscle): Responsible for flexion (narrow grip) or horizontal adductive shoulder joint (wide grip)

  Trice (activation muscle): Extend the elbow

  When you understand these basic knowledge, your mind will clearly know what you are doing! Of course, it is not easy to do these well! It is recommended that you learn basic exercise interpretation!

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