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Push press. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Hold the kettlebell in your right hand with the elbow bent at shoulder height. Perform a simple half squat, bending your knees just a little bit.
Bring the kettlebell up to one shoulder and "chop" down diagonally, bringing the weight to your opposite hip. Keep your torso stable as you do so. Perform 3 sets of 10 chops on each side.
The exercise, called the "wood chop,” is “simple but effective,” she says. ... it’s easy and it’s a standing exercise that works your entire core—abs, obliques, back, and shoulders ...
Major variants: reverse ~ (curling the pelvis towards the shoulders), twisting ~ or side ~ (lifting one shoulder at a time; emphasis is on the obliques), cable ~ (pulling down on a cable machine while kneeling), sit-up ~ (have [chest] touch your knees), vertical crunch (propping up to dangle legs and pulling knees to the [ chest] or keeping ...
Kettlebell high pulls / kettlebell standing pull-up – kettlebell movement; kettlebell is between the feet then grabbed with both arms maintaining flat back then ascended and raised to waist followed by pulling it directly in front of the face (elbows stay high and reach eye height (handle is at chin level)).
The lift is set up by taking either a barbell, a pair of dumbbells or kettlebells, and holding them at shoulder level. The weight is then pressed overhead. [3] While the exercise can be performed standing or seated, standing recruits more muscles as more balancing is required in order to support the lift. [4]
The rep pattern helps make sure that the bigger muscle groups like your legs are working as hard as your arms with the same weight, avoiding a common mistake in HIIT-style workouts.
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.
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