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What you need: A pair of dumbbells (light to medium weight) and a mat. This workout targets your core and obliques in just 20 minutes. The Routine: Dumbbell Russian Twists (3 sets of 20 reps per side)
The Russian twist can be incorporated into any abs circuit, but Donohoe likes pairing it with an upper body exercise like a chest press, single-arm dumbbell row, or bent-over row. Russian Twist ...
Dumbbell Russian Twists. Sit on the floor with your knees bent and your feet lifted off the ground. Hold a dumbbell with both hands, and lean back slightly to engage your core. Rotate your torso ...
To perform the Russian twist one sits on the floor and bends both knees while feet are kept together and held slightly above the ground (or put under a stable surface). ). Ideally, the torso is kept straight with the back kept off the ground at a 45-degree angle with arms held together away from the body in a straight fashion and hands kept locked together like a ball or one can hold a weight ...
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.
Abdominal muscles have many important functions, including breathing, coughing, and sneezing, and maintaining posture and speech in a number of species. [4] Other abdominal functions are that it helps "in the function of support, containment of viscera, and help in the process of expiration, defecation, urination, vomiting, and also at the time of childbirth."
Russian Twists. Shutterstock. Start Russian twists by sitting on the ground with bent knees. Lean back just a bit, maintain a straight back, and lift your feet off the floor. Twist your torso to ...
Using either a dumbbell or barbell the weight starts at a standing position and the movement focuses on the hip hinge movement while maintaining a flat back and slight bent at the knees. Taking your standard RDL form you slide one leg back with the front leg acting as the working leg and taking most of the lead the back leg is for stabilization.