Does anyone know.......?

Question

.......a website where you can click on a body part and get a list of exercises to tone it? I have lists and lists of exercises but don't know what all of them are for. and is there a particular order i should do it in? a limit to how many different ones i can do a day?

Answer 1

try in www.google.com

Answer 2

E-fitness has a list or a guide to exercises ( http://www.efitness.com ).

A simple way of telling what an exercise or a movement targets is by mimicking the motion of that exercise without weights. Think about the movement you're making, where your arms move, and in which direction against the weight. Then think about which muscle or body part that would be involved in making that movement. Remember that muscles can only pull, not push. So if an exercise has you bending your arms up against a weight, it works your biceps as the biceps (on the front of your upper arm) pulls to bend your arm. Likewise, if an exercise has you straightening your arms against a weight, it works your triceps as the triceps (on the back of your upper arms) pulls to straighten your arm.

Likewise, if an exercise has you pulling your arms down and back, it's working your back muscles (typically the latissimus dorsi). If an exercise has you pushing a weight above your head, it's working your shoulders (deltoids, trapezius). And if an exercise has you pushing a weight in front of you, it's working your chest (pectoralis major).

You don't have to know what the muscles are called. It's ok to just say "the front of my arm" instead of biceps, so long as that makes sense to you.

I've assumed that your question refers to weight training exercises. Aerobic exercises don't target their results (ie: fat loss) to any specific area as spot reduction doesn't work. Some aerobic exercises have a toning effect on certain body part as these body parts would do the brunt of the work to move your body against gravity (for instance your butt and quads are worked hard on the stairmaster, and thus tend to get toned more on that exercise). Fat loss however, depends on your genetic make up - where you lose fat first and where you tend to store fat more depends on your genes. Compare pictures of your parents when they were young (and presumably thinner) to what your parents are like now and you'll have a godd idea of where these stubborn spots are. Just keep at it with the cardio exercises, maintain a good elevated heart rate, keep to a sensible low fat diet and you'll get there.

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There is no particular order in which you should target different bodyparts, just a little bit of common sense where most upper body movements use the arms, so you wouldn't want to exercise the arms first in a session or else your arms will be too exhausted and get in the way of exercising other bodyparts.

Other than that, it all depends on your goals. I tend to exercise chest and back in one session, then shoulders, arms and legs in another session the next day. I then have a day of rest and repeat the cycle for the second half of the week. This works out to 4 sessions at the gym a week, at about 1 1/2 hours each. You don't have to do that much, in fact for toning, I suspect a good workout with light weights (of about 50%-60% of the heaviest weight you can lift for any one movement) and high reps (12-15 reps), with maybe 4-6 sets would take you about 15 minutes per bodypart (1 to 1 1/2 minutes per set with a minute or so rest in between). Do about 3 bodyparts a session, and a 30 minute cardio session before that, you're looking at 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Answer 3

The best way to know which part it works for, is by feeling pain and strain on the body part when you do the exercise, means that the exercise is meant for the body part. Get it? You should start from your head, neck and go down to your ankles. Emphasize on the torso area. Limit = all that in 30 - 60 minutes, done 3 times a week.

Answer 4

i dont know of a particular website with everything on but if you google 'tone up exercises' or something along those lines you should find something. if you need any help on exercises and which particular part of the body they tone up though then drop me an e.mail.

Answer 5

Go to a gym get expert advice on what exercise you need and where then you will know for your own benefit

Answer 6

Try google just looked try www.amazon.com Goodluck

Answer 7

i dont ever remember seeing one but Google

Answer 8

go to www.sparkpeople.com they'll give you some tips

Answer 9

http://thetrainingstationinc.com/exercises.html

Should help you out a bit.

Answer 10

I don't know either.