Each bag, regardless of size, goes around your neck and sits comfortably on top of your shoulders. Walking around with one burns extra calories, as does jogging, and doing a host of other activities.
Tips on Using Shoulder Bags
#1. Avoid Dangerous Activities
Never use a shoulder bag while doing anything potentially dangerous, such as swimming or cycling. The added weight on a bicycle would make you top-heavy and more likely to crash. While swimming, that extra weight would dramatically reduce your bouyancy and put you in danger of drowning. So definitely avoid using shoulder bags during any activity that could lead you to crash, drown, or potentially sustain some kind of injury.
#2. Do NOT Wear A Shoulder Bag Constantly
Unless you love having back pain and developing sports injuries, then you really should only be using a shoulder bag while exercising - like when taking a walk, a jog, doing other weightlifting activities, and so forth. Wearing one constantly means your muscles don't get a chance to relax, recuperate and repair themselves. During a state of constant wear and tear your muscles would actually break down, become chronically painful, and would actually shrink instead of bulking up. Having extended breaks between exercises promotes healing and muscle growth and wearing a shoulder bag constantly would prevent such healing.
#3. Sleeping Position and Diet
You should find a sleeping position that allows your back muscles to relax more fully. This will allow them to heal and bulk up faster. The same goes with your diet, your diet needs to match your exercise routine so you are getting enough calories, protein and nutrients - so think lots of veggies and meat. This way your body gets plenty of sleep and has the right amount of protein to be used a building blocks and the right amount of nutrient rich veggies to speed up the process.
A lack of quality sleep and a lack of healthy food wrecks havoc with your potential muscle gain.
When choosing shoulder bags to use you should start off small and then gradually work your way up to heavier weights. Thus you should always start off with a 5 KG bag, regardless of your current physical condition.
Use the 5 KG bag during your exercise routine for 6 to 8 weeks and then switch to a 10 KG bag. Then use that for 8 to 10 weeks before switching to a 15 KG bag, and so forth.
- 5 KG - Use for 6 to 8 weeks.
- 10 KG - Use for 8 to 10 weeks.
- 15 KG - Use for 10 to 12 weeks.
- 20 KG - Use for 12 to 14 weeks.
- 25 KG - Use for 14 to 16 weeks.
- 30 KG - Good luck even finding bags in this size or bigger. They do exist, but are trickier to find.
Patience and Restraint are Virtues, not just in Weightlifting but also in Life.
You should research specific exercises that work well with Shoulder Bags. Shoulder Bag are great for increasing core stability, thus you can add these bags to a multitude of exercises such as:
- Lunges
- Barbell Squats
- Dumbbell Squats
- Solitary Squats
- Jumps
- Jumping Jacks
- Skip Rope
- Boxing
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