Home Excercises For Increasing Strength

[jayson2k3]

Does any know any good home excercises for improving strength,, im really skinny and want to improve my strength?

[Tuna Fish]

Hi-

Do you have any weight training equipment available to you at home? Bench, barbell, dumbbells, etc....

Tuna

[goloid]

push ups are great

even better for beginners

[jayson2k3]

No, i dont have any weights,how many pushups do i need to do,is it bad when you do 10 pushups and get tired?

[Lee J B]

No it doesn not matter how man you do at all, if you do 10 and get tired then simply work on getting to 11, then 12 ..... then 13 ... etc. Thats how everyone here improves... got to start somewhere.

[jayson2k3]

pushups are great for upper body strentgh, do any of you guys know any home excercises for improving legs my shins are so weak i can barely jump while playing basketball?

[Lee J B]

Try this, stand on your tip toes and jump using the tips of your feet, you should feel where it burns.... in time this can increase your explosive jump height. Cursor is good with basketball, wait till he's sees this thread and you will be sorted.

[ralex5]

If you want to increase your vertical you can just lay a broom stick down beside you and jump back and forth over it. If this is too easy, raise it up a little. After about 50 of these you'll feel it. It may sound stupid, but it works.

[cursor]

There are certainly a great many factors that come into play when working on your vertical leap. At this point, though, it sounds like the first thing you need to do is to strengthen your shin muscles. Do toe raises—first, withjust the weight of your body, then with additional weights (dumbbells in your hands, weight belt, standing calf raise equipment, etc).

The next stage is to leap and land on the balls of your feet. Focuse on minimal heights to begin with (like Ralex recommended, just jump over a broomstick)—up, down ... side to side ... front to back. Don't do too much too soon.

When you get to the point that you no longer get shin splints while hopping around like a rabbit for 10 minutes, let me know (then we'll talk about hip flexors, lower back, etc).

[jayson2k3]

thanks all the reason for my question today was because i went to the gym yesterday and got totally embarrased, im 6'2 skinny with weak shins and this guy was killing my under the glass i will take all your advice and work on my shins and leaping!