Coming up with the right body building workout for your upper body is important. You must be able to know your limits and what you are able to do without hurting yourself. You must also know your body well enough to recognize when you can push yourself that extra bit to reach new limits in your workout.

When working out your upper body, there are several muscles to consider. There is the shoulders, back, chest, biceps and triceps. There are several different workouts you can do for each muscle allowing you to switch up your routine from time to time. So let’s get right into it.

You never want to lift the same muscle two days in a row. A great way to split this up is by lifting your back and chest one day and then your biceps, triceps and shoulders the next.

For your chest, you can do a flat bench press, incline bench press, decline bench press, flat bench dumbbell flyes, and much more. It is all about finding what suites you best.

When working out your back you may want to consider  lat machine pull downs, dead lifts, bent over rowing, shrugs and hyper extensions. It is important that you pay close attention to your form when working on your back. The smallest slip-up can have you out for weeks with a back injury.

The next day when you work on your shoulders, biceps and triceps, you may want to consider doing shrugs, a seated dumbbell press, side lateral raises and alternate front dumbbell raises for your shoulders.

As for your biceps, you can obviously do standing barbell curls, alternate dumbbell curls, incline dumbbell curls and preacher curls. A preacher curl involves you lifting a barbell on a preacher bench.

Then we are left with the triceps. For this muscle area you may want to do some triceps bench dips, standing cable press downs, overhead rope extensions and one arm dumbbell extensions.

Make sure that before you start any of the exercises mentioned within this article, that you fully understand how to execute them properly first. Using the incorrect technique can not only prevent you from building muscle, but it can also lead to serious injury as well.

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