The Right
Muscles for the Right Sports
Lots of people especially school
kids workout to try to get better at the sport they participate in. Just about any sport that you play, you can
get better at it with more strength. Although
most people think that for whatever sport they play they have to exercise every
muscle in their body to get better at it.
This isn’t a bad idea although if you are just trying get stronger at
your sport you need to know the main muscles groups that you need to be better
at that sport. This is a post on the
most common sports and what muscle groups are essential to get better in these
sports.
Basketball-
Basketball is a bit more of the obvious sports to figure out the muscle groups
to work to get better at. One of the
most essential muscles groups to work for basketball players are quads and
calves just from all the running and jumping thin the sport. If you play basketball the exercises you
should focus on the most are squats, lunges, barbell walks, and weighted calf
raises. This gives you all the power you
need to get up and down the court before everyone else and get a jump shot past
the other player’s waist. One of the
muscles groups basketball players seem to forget are the triceps, because of
the follow through on the shot you are pushing up with your triceps to get the
ball soaring to the bucket. For this you
need to work on tricep extensions, tricep rope pulls, and dips.
Football-
Football is a very physical sport and it is very important to work out and work
out hard. There are many position in
football but they all need about the same exercises. Because of the constant pushing and pulling
in football you should exercise your back muscles mainly your lats, to help you
push past the offensive lineman, curl up with the ball and plow past
linebackers chasing you down, or pushing through to get the tackle to stop
short the third down. Also you need legs
to get you down the field as a running back, a quarterback, or a defensive
tackle chasing down the ball before a score.
For this you need hamstrings, and quads.
You need squats, lunges, leg levers, leg presses, and reverse leg levers. The last very important thing in football is
getting the ball through the air and into the receiver’s hands. For a great, long, spiraling pass you need
triceps and chest. You should work
butterflys, bench press, tricep extensions, dips, dumbbell press, and incline
bench press.
Wrestling-
Wrestling is probably the only sport that you need to work out every part of
your body get good at it. You need lats
for pushing and pulling your opponent, you need triceps for moving your opponent
to your location and pushing their face to the matt, you need legs to push and
pull you opponent to the point where he doesn’t know what’s going on, you need
neck so you don’t get caught in a half nelson, you need chest so you can push
your opponent off of you and off of a pin, you need forearms to get you that
rock hard grip that you opponent finds impossible to get out of, you need your
core so that you don’t lose your balance and accidently get put on the matt. For this sport you need to constantly be in the
gym working out everything all the time.
Track
and Field- Track and Field is a pretty self-explanatory sport as far as
what to work on to get an advantage in the sport. If you are a runner, work your quads, but
mostly your hamstrings by doing really deep squats, deep lunges, and jump squats,
and also calf raises with a barbell. If you
are doing the shot ball or discus, then work your biceps and triceps with all
types of curls, dips, and extensions. It’s
pretty easy to figure out what to do for this sport.
No matter what sport you may
participate in, strength can up your game tremendously, but you need to know
what to work on. Remember, we’re all in
this together, keep your stick on the ice.
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