Heavy Lifting Help

aalicia88

Currently I do Jillian Michaels circuit training dvds but I want to incorporate heavy lifting. I don't have access to a gym so I was wondering if there are any good strength training dvds anybody could reccomend? I like dvds because it helps me when the instructor shows the correct way to perform the move. Any help would be greatly appreciated.. thanks!

Showcase_Brodown

DVDs, no, but there are videos all over the youtubez. Just search for the exercise you are looking for.

nursek_2010

bump! i need some good vids too!!

oneskweek

I applaud your desire to add lifting to your workouts. As a fitness professional, I do want to caution you that doing heavy lifting at home can be dangerous. For example, if you misjudge what you can benchpress, there is no one there to get the bar off of you. There are a ton of great videos on youtube. I don't know of any premade DVD's. I would recommend anything looking for videos put out by accredited training professionals. Eric Cressy is one name that pops into my head, but there are many very good people out there. Tony Robertson is another. I have a bad memory for names, otherwise I could give you lots more. There is a ton you can do with just body weights and dumbbells. Lunges, squats, pushups, pullups, dead lifts and more can be done with dumbbells and a bar. I would get a stretchy band or two, a swiss ball and a pull up bar for any home gym, as well as at least two weights of dumbbells.

aalicia88

I applaud your desire to add lifting to your workouts. As a fitness professional, I do want to caution you that doing heavy lifting at home can be dangerous. For example, if you misjudge what you can benchpress, there is no one there to get the bar off of you. There are a ton of great videos on youtube. I don't know of any premade DVD's. I would recommend anything looking for videos put out by accredited training professionals. Eric Cressy is one name that pops into my head, but there are many very good people out there. Tony Robertson is another. I have a bad memory for names, otherwise I could give you lots more. There is a ton you can do with just body weights and dumbbells. Lunges, squats, pushups, pullups, dead lifts and more can be done with dumbbells and a bar. I would get a stretchy band or two, a swiss ball and a pull up bar for any home gym, as well as at least two weights of dumbbells.

Thanks! That's what I plan to do is just buy a pair of dumbells that are difficult for me to do a few reps. Right now I just have a pair of 5s which are good for my circuits but thats it. I just need sort of a guide to make sure I'm using the adjacent muscles. I just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way.

cwolfman13

"Heavy Lifting" is a term synonymous with strength training programs. These programs are done in the 3-5 sets of 1-5 rep range, where you are at or very near failure on your last rep. "Heavy Lifting" strength programs require barbells as the programs revolve around the big, compound lifts (ie Squats, Dead-lift, Bench Press, Over Head Press, Power Clean/Pendlay Row). These programs generally have you start out relatively light, but you add weight each time you perform your workout in order for your body to adapt to increased loads. You're really not going to truly do a program like this at home with dumbbells...you'd need a power rack or at minimum a squat rack and bench press and olympic BBs and plates.

Furthermore, you're not going to find exercise DVDs for "heavy lifting." You will find videos on You Tube for form, but "heavy lifting' isn't really a DVD kind of thing.

That doesn't mean you can't do some resistance work...I just didn't want you to get confused...lots of ladies think that just adding in some work with weights with their DVD is strength training...it is not. IMHO, if you don't have the requisite equipment, you're probably going to be better off doing some body weight resistance training and maybe throw in some resistance bands or something.

aalicia88

"Heavy Lifting" is a term synonymous with strength training programs. These programs are done in the 3-5 sets of 1-5 rep range, where you are at or very near failure on your last rep. "Heavy Lifting" strength programs require barbells as the programs revolve around the big, compound lifts (ie Squats, Dead-lift, Bench Press, Over Head Press, Power Clean/Pendlay Row). These programs generally have you start out relatively light, but you add weight each time you perform your workout in order for your body to adapt to increased loads. You're really not going to truly do a program like this at home with dumbbells...you'd need a power rack or at minimum a squat rack and bench press and olympic BBs and plates.

Furthermore, you're not going to find exercise DVDs for "heavy lifting." You will find videos on You Tube for form, but "heavy lifting' isn't really a DVD kind of thing.

That doesn't mean you can't do some resistance work...I just didn't want you to get confused...lots of ladies think that just adding in some work with weights with their DVD is strength training...it is not. IMHO, if you don't have the requisite equipment, you're probably going to be better off doing some body weight resistance training and maybe throw in some resistance bands or something.

Thanks. I see where you're coming from but heavy lifting for me would even be a set of 15-20 pound dumbbells. I've tried lifting one of those bars and I'm relatively weak, definitely can't even do a deadlift . Something for me to work towards I suppose. I have a set of 5lbs that i use with my circuit training so maybe I should have rephrased it to HEAVIER lifting lol. Sighs, I have a 'gym' at my apartment complex but all it has are a couple treadmills, an elliptical, and some sort of bike thing.