Upper Body Exercises: The 6 Categories - Deepstash

Upper Body Exercises: The 6 Categories

The vast majority of upper body exercises will fall into one of the following six categories:

  1. Horizontal Pushing
  2. Horizontal Pulling
  3. Vertical Pushing
  4. Vertical Pulling
  5. Elbow Flexion
  6. Elbow Extension

Why should you care about any of this? Two reasons:

  • Effectiveness
  • Designing a workout with these six categories in mind will help ensure that every upper body muscle group is being trained, and you’re using each available movement plane  to do so.
  • Injury Prevention And Balance
  • Designing things this way also helps to keep everything balanced around the joints

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