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World’s greatest stretch. Step forward with the right leg into a kneeling lunge position.Place your hands on the floor on either side of your right foot. Then extend your left arm straight up ...
Lie down on your back, legs extended. Pull your right knee up to your chest. Allow your right knee to fall across your body to touch the floor. Keep your left leg straight on the floor. Extend ...
Pull your navel in toward your spine and lift your straight left leg up behind you to work the glute. Repeat this 10 times, then switch legs. Upper-body exercises
An image of a bridge position with straight legs. The body is pushed over the shoulders to enable straight vertical arms, stretching the shoulders and upper body. The bridge (also called gymnastic bridge [1]) is an exercise. Many variations of this exercise are employed throughout the world, most commonly the balancing of the body on the hands ...
Do not hold the arms straight over the face at 12 o'clock, but rather at an angle more like 10 o'clock, with feet at 3 o'clock. All of the weight should be on the triceps. Now bend the arms at the elbow, bringing the bar down close to the top of the forehead. Keep the elbows in the same position, do not let them sway outward.
The leg raise is a strength training exercise which targets the iliopsoas (the anterior hip flexors).Because the abdominal muscles are used isometrically to stabilize the body during the motion, leg raises are also often used to strengthen the rectus abdominis muscle and the internal and external oblique muscles.
Extend the left arm straight up to the ceiling. Hold the position for 10 seconds before coming back through plank and switching sides. Repeat 3 times on each side.
This exercise can be done using either a straight barbell, EZ barbell, [3] dumbbell [4] or cable attachment. The elbows could also be bent at about 90° to achieve a different stretch. In this variation the weight is lowered till the upper arm is in line with the torso. [5]