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One arm dumbbell bent-over-row: [1] This exercise is frequently performed with one knee and one hand on the same side of the body braced on a bench with the back straight and parallel to the ground, and the other hand holding a weight with the arm extended. The weight is lifted towards the hip until elbow bends past 90° and the humerus is in ...
Row (weight-lifting) 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 ...
Single-Arm Kettlebell Press (x10 reps per arm) Tim Liu, C.S.C.S. Hold a single kettlebell at shoulder height with the handle resting comfortably across your palm.
Extensometer. A wireline extensometer monitoring slope displacement and transmitting data remotely via radio or Wi-Fi. An extensometer is a device that is used to measure changes in the length of an object. [1] It is useful for stress - strain measurements and tensile tests. Its name comes from "extension-meter".
Arm wrestling (also spelled armwrestling) is a sport with two opponents who face each other with their bent elbows placed on a table and hands firmly gripped, who then attempt to force the opponent's hand down to the table top ("pin" them). The sport is often casually used to demonstrate the stronger person between two or more people.
The upright row is one exercise that can be performed on the cable machine. A cable machine is an item of equipment used in weight training or functional training.It consists of a rectangular, vertically oriented steel frame about 3 metres wide and 2 metres high, with a weight stack attached via a cable and pulley system to one or more handles. [1]
Upright row. The upright row is a weight training exercise performed by holding a weight with an overhand grip and lifting it straight up to the collarbone. This is a compound exercise that involves the trapezius, the deltoids and the biceps. The narrower the grip the more the trapezius muscles are exercised, as opposed to the deltoids.
Bechdel test. The American cartoonist Alison Bechdel incorporated her friend's "test" into a strip in Dykes to Watch Out For. The Bechdel test (/ ˈbɛkdəl / BEK-dəl), [ 1 ] also known as the Bechdel-Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction. The test asks whether a work features at least two female ...