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  2. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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    The chest fly is performed while lying face up on a bench or standing up, with arms outspread holding weights, by bringing the arms together above the chest. This is a compound exercise for the pectorals. Other muscles worked include deltoids, triceps, and forearms. Equipment: dumbbells, cable machine or "pec deck" machine.

  3. Bench (weight training) - Wikipedia

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    Typical consumer-level weight bench with leg exercise attachment Two weight training benches in a fitness center in Nürnberg, Germany Hyper bench for hyperextension Negative bench or decline bench. A weight training bench is a piece of exercise equipment used for weight training. Weight training benches may be of various designs: fixed ...

  4. Bent-over row - Wikipedia

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    Starting out by lifting lower weights to build endurance in the lower back as well as the upper pulling muscles. Upper back muscles often have a lot of slow-twitch fibers so bent-over rows can respond better than some exercises that use muscles with a higher ratio of fast-twitch fibers. Doing the exercise with a slow tempo and avoiding jerking.

  5. Isometric exercise - Wikipedia

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    Isometrics, muscle lengthening and muscle shortening exercises were studied and compared. The outcome showed that while all three exercise types promoted muscle growth, isometrics failed to prevent a decrease in the amount of contractile proteins found in the muscle tissue. The result was muscle degradation at a molecular level.

  6. Bench press - Wikipedia

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    The bench press or chest press is a weight training exercise where a person presses a weight upwards while lying horizontally on a weight training bench. The bench press is a compound movement, with the primary muscles involved being the pectoralis major, the anterior deltoids, and the triceps brachii. Other muscles located in the back, legs ...

  7. Handstand push-up - Wikipedia

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    The body is vertical in a handstand. The handstand push-up (press-up) - also called the vertical push-up (press-up) or the inverted push-up (press-up), also called "commandos" - is a type of push-up exercise where the body is positioned in a handstand.

  8. Eccentric training - Wikipedia

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    This movement has also been described as negative training. This "negative" movement is necessary to reverse the muscle from its initial trajectory. [1]When the load exceeds the force that can be developed by the muscle at a constant length, as in an eccentric muscle action, the exercise is referred to as involving negative work, because the muscle is absorbing energy.

  9. Machine fly - Wikipedia

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    Flyes are used to work the muscles of the upper body, primarily the sternal head of the pectoralis major. Because these exercises use the arms as levers at their longest possible length, the amount of weight that can be moved is significantly less than equivalent press exercises for the same muscles (the military press and bench press for the ...