excercises to strengthen arms?

[newbieskater]

anyone have any good excercises to help strengthen the arms? also any that will help strengthen the shoulder/back muscles? i have a tendency to roll my shoulders forward and drop the back arm down when skating.

thanks very much!

[techskater]

weight training is good for both.

Pilates is good for core muscles

[Kuddles]

Pushups work best, not those girly ones either. :twisted:

[Skate@Delaware]

Yeah, weight training is good. Any well-rounded workout for your shoulders, upper back, chest, and abs is a good start. But if you don't have access to a gym, you can do exercises using body-weight...you know, the old-fashioned way...pushups, pullups, chair dips, and the like. A book on calesthenics and pilates can help (maybe you can find them at the library).

[MQSeries]

Arms:
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tricep extension
tricep pressdown
bicep curl
reverse bicept curl (for the forarm)

Shoulder
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Dumbell press
Dumbell lateral raise
Bent over dumbell row (for the back shoulder)

Back
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One-arm dumbell row
Lat pull-down
Chin-up

If you're working out at home and don't have dumbell then just use something like a can of coffee, etc. Something that will give you some resistance.

[Skate@Delaware]

The November 2006 edition of Women's Health magazine has an article, "The Best Exercise for Every Body Part" and it's fairly complete but simple-bodyweight, dumbbells, chinup bar...you might want to check it out!

[russiet]

I use a "Total Gym" . To strengthen the muscles that hold my shoulders back I sit facing up the incline and pull back on the cables. I visualize that Im trying to touch my elbows in back of me.

There are other ways of doing this.