Fitness Challenge Day 1

Okay, the Double Dirty Fitness Challenge starts tomorrow!!!!  Here is your first daily exercise challenge.  I will post each challenge the night before so you can plan it into the following day.  Hope you all are as excited as I am to get this challenge started!

Today's Exercise:  Shoulder Press

Mountain bikers need a strong upper body, especially those who ride downhill!  Sometimes you gotta muscle that bike around to stay on it!  Shoulder presses are a good basic strength training move to help strengthen your deltoids and triceps, and they help make your waist look smaller, which is always a good thing.  For more info on the shoulder press you can check out THIS article.

How to do:

The Challenge:

*Start with 5-10 presses with a light weight (2-5 lbs) to warm up
*rest 1 minute
*Using a heavier weight (5-15 lbs depending on your fitness level)  do as many reps as you can while using  proper form, if your form suffers, that is the point when you should stop.
*rest 1 minute
*If you found the last weight easy, move to a slightly heavier weight, otherwise stay with the same weight, do as many reps as you can while using proper form.
*Relax, you're done!