Upper body and Core exercises at home

[david1701]

Right I have dumbells and the usual furniture available and I want some exercises I can do to improve my upper body strength (and to bulk up a bit in balance).

I do press ups/ sit ups, curls, butterfly curls, these funny chest presses where you lift up the dumbells from your chest (standing) and rotate round and back then bring down.

Any thing else I can do, more thinking muscles than cardio as I get a lot of that from riding.

All help appreciated

 

[Garz]

Planks and some ab exercises using a gym ball will be good for your core. A lot of people also use kettlebells as they are a good workout and can offer some variety if you want to take a look at that.

 

[cyberknight]

Add lateral raises



Dumbbell row

This might be of interest ..

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[david1701]

cheers guys, I do circuit training once a week and have stolen doing planks from there, theres also a kind of backwards plank? I do that too

oooh hardcore lance

 

[MacB]

if you can put up a chinup bar then you can almost do away with all the rest

 

[cyberknight]

I have one of these in the garage , use it 2-3 times a week..

 

[david1701]

hmmmm cyberknight

@ MacB I can imagine my mums face, not good

 

[cyberknight]

hmmmm cyberknight

@ MacB I can imagine my mums face, not good

I will be the 1st to admit although "skinny " i am a bit lumpy for a pure climber so i do like to keep a little bit of definition on the upper body.

You can do exercises with less resistance and more repetitions to define rather than bulk up but i just keep it on max setting ,you can get models that fold under the bed.

I am not this defined now as age and responsibility have caught up with me and my legs have got bigger but this was my upper body in my youth ...