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Denise Austin recently demonstrated a core exercise to help combat “menopausal belly.” The exercise, called the "wood chop,” is “simple but effective,” she says.
2. Lower-Body Strength Workout. Why it works: This circuit fires up all the major muscles of the lower body and favors unilateral (single-leg) lifts. Working unilaterally is beneficial to cyclists ...
The weights are well-suited for upper body work with presses, pulls, curls, and more, while you can load for lower body exercises too, using the goblet, suitcase, and front rack positions.
Dumbbell flye. 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.
One arm barbell bent-over row: [1] Done in a nearly identical fashion as the one arm dumbbell, but with the added instability of a long bar. This necessitated greater work by the radial and ulnar flexors of the wrist to stabilize while pulling. It also gives greater feedback about the pronation and supination as the movement of the bar is very ...
Beginner, intermediate and advanced dumbbell exercises to build muscle and strength all over your body
In strength training, rowing (or a row, usually preceded by a qualifying adjective — for instance a cable seated row, barbell upright row, dumbbell bent-over row, T-bar rows, et cetera) is an exercise where the purpose is to strengthen the muscles that draw the rower's arms toward the body (latissimus dorsi) as well as those that retract the scapulae (trapezius and rhomboids) and those that ...
Hold a dumbbell in your top hand, and extend your arm toward the ceiling. Rotate your torso, bringing the dumbbell underneath your body. Return to the starting position. This counts as one repetition.