5 Exercises You Can Do with Weight Plates
The weight plates in your barbells are often employed to enhance grip and strengthen the muscles. Weight plates are available in different shapes, sizes, and weights. The advantage of using a weight plate on its own is that it improves grip and strengthens the tiny muscles of the fingers and hands.
In specific exercises like the Halo (which involves revolving the plate from the front of your chest, back around the neck, and ahead again), alignment of the joints is best.
5 Best Weight Plates Exercises For Home
Following are the five best weight plate exercises.
PLANK PLATE SWITCH
This exercise targets shoulders, chest, abs, obliques. Start with a plank position and keep your hands at eye level and toes firm to the bottom. Stack four to 5 weight plates together. Raise the left arm, start grabbing each weight plate one by one, and stack them to your left side. After stacking on the left side, raise your right arm, grab each plate and stack them to your right. Repeat the method, speeding up as you go.
PLATE PUSHUPS
This exercise mainly targets the shoulders, chest, abs, arms. Start during a pushup position and keep a plate under each hand, ensuring the plates are in touch. Lower the chest and slide plates apart as you move. Aim for your nose to touch the bottom. Revisit to start position and slide the plates back together. Repeat.
FRONT SHOULDER RAISE
This exercise mainly targets shoulders, back, abs. Pick a weight plate with both hands. Keep your feet hip-width apart while standing, holding the plate with an indoor grip and arms extended forward. Keep your arms straight and elbows soft, and then slowly raise the plate overhead until your biceps meet your ears.
LATERAL RAISE
This exercise mainly targets deltoids, shoulders, upper back. Make sure to stand in a straight torso position with your feet hip-width apart. Hold a weight plate with each hand and hold them to your sides. Start raising the weight plates out from your sides with a slight bend on the elbow. Stop the movement when your arms are parallel to the ground. Lower the weight plates slowly back to starting position and repeat.
HALO
The main benefits of exercise are to targets shoulders, biceps, triceps, back, abs. Keep your feet hip-width apart while standing, hold the weight plate at the surface grip, and arms extended overhead. Bend your elbows and start moving the weight plate around your head in a circular motion until you revisit to starting position. Switch directions and Repeat.
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