Correct Exercise Form
Proper Exercise Form is Vital to your success!

These people are supposed to be fitness experts, and they are the ones teaching absolutely horrible form on weight lifting exercises. This includes most of the personal trainers in commercial gyms!


I'm going to give you a few video examples of people teaching horrible form. I'm sure they'll take them down if they ever see this page! Remember, this is exactly what you'll get in a commercial gym from personal trainers. Ignore all advice from others in your gym and use Weight Lifting Complete as your guide!


Some of the exercises that people never get right are some of the most important weight lifting exercises out there. Squats, Deadlifts, Bench Press, and Overhead Press are some of the most important exercises that the majority of people just don't know how to do correctly! Once you learn how to do these exercises with proper form, you will start gaining strength quickly. You'll build more muscle using correct exercise form!


When you use correct exercise form, you are using all of the correct muscles in your body to perform a particluar lift. When your form is not correct, you are using certain muscles more than they are meant to be used and other muscles less than they should be used. So, you end up using less weight, and you never progress because you just don't use the intended muscles the way they should be used!


Use proper exercise form and lift more weight. Building muscle can get quite easy using correct form on the best exercises.

Don't get me wrong here. I am not talking about loose form on exercises. I personally believe in loose form on some exercises because it allows you to lift more weight. Most of the more muscular people you'll see in the gym use loose form on many of the exercises they do.


I use loose form on some exercises. Other exercises should never use loose form. For example, squats should always use tight form while dumbbell curls can use loose form. You should always use perfect form for deadlifts. Barbell Rows are an exercise that you can use loose form with to get more weight up. The list goes on and on...


The form the guy is using in the video below is perfectly fine. He is using huge weights and controlling the weight. The target muscle here is the forearms. He does a great job using his body to help him lift the weight, but still puts tons of stress on his forearms! This is what builds muscle! He is overloading the muscle. He is applying stress to the forearms that they have never received before. They have no choice but to grow!

If anyone makes negative comments about this guy's form, they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about! He is lifting 125 pounds in each arm, and he definitely knows what he is doing. I do the same thing with pinwheel curls when the weights get heavy. And trust me, loose form and more weight is much better for building muscle than perfect form with less weight.


Bad form is much different than loose form. Bad form will get you injured eventually. Loose form on the correct weight lifting exercises will not injure you and will build more muscle! Experienced weight lifters will know exactly what I mean. The inexperienced weight lifters will eventually learn!

Now, let's take a look at some of the bad information given out on proper exercise form. It's very easy to find! All you have to do is go to You Tube and search for certain exercises. Let's have a look at barbell squats.

The video above gives absolutely horrible information about how to perform a squat! Horrible! I feel ashamed to put this video here, but I want you to know that this is not the proper form for the squat. Correct exercise form should be taken seriously! Over ten thousand people have viewed that video. I hope none of them used the advice there!


He does about a quarter squat, starts the movement by bending his knees, bar placement is horrible, hand placement is horrible, and so on. I hate seeing bad information like this! I would bet that the guy instructing others has never even done a real squat. Let's take a look at another one:

If you don't know what you're talking about, then please don't make videos instructing others how to do exercises. The guy in the video above knows a lot more than the guy in the first video, but it's still a horrible example of the squat!


First off, you don't place the bar at a height where you have to tippy toe to unrack it and rack it when you're finished. This makes it much harder to get into the correct position for proper squatting. And a half squat is no good either. Let's forget about these horrible examples and look at some better examples!

Now, let's look at some videos of people using correct exercise form. These are the good ones, so feel free to pay attention to these! You don't have to forget this information.

The part I like about the video above is the set up. His set up is perfect. Pay attention to everything he does here. Notice the bar is set about chest height. See how tight he gets before unracking the bar? The set up for the squat is one of the most important parts and so many people take it for granted!

The guy in the video above starts the motion with his hips like you're supposed to! Pay attention and watch how he begins by moving his butt backwards. He then has to bend his knees. He doesn't start by bending his knees. You have to pay close attention to see this! I love to see squats when someone gets it right.


I want to go over one more example of correct exercise form for the overhead press. The overhead press is one of the great upper body exercises. It works the entire upper body but puts more focus on the shoulder region. I always ignored overhead press form because I thought I had it correct. I wasn't even close! Once I watched the video below and corrected my form, my strength went thru the roof! Do the same, and you'll start building slabs of muscle!

Please watch the video above and learn how to do the overhead press! You'll love the strength you'll gain from this exercise simply by performing it with proper form. Good luck and let me know if you need any help. Correct exercise form is a must if you are serious about reaching your goals!


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