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Jumping jacks mix cardio and resistance work in one swift move (er, jump), while engaging multiple muscles, including the glutes, hamstrings, quads, and calves, as well as the muscles of the core ...
Schoolchildren in the US performing jumping jacks. A jumping jack, also known as a star jump and called a side-straddle hop in the US military, is a physical jumping exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands going overhead, sometimes in a clap, and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides.
Real talk: The thought of doing jumping jacks may be only slightly more enticing than burpees. It may bring back memories of pre-dodgeball warm-ups back when dodgeball was part of gym class.
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Jumping Jacks was filmed from December 3, 1951 through January 23, 1952. [4] The original story (Ready, Willing and Four F) was written during World War II by Robert Lees and Fred Rinaldo and acquired by Paramount Pictures. It was offered first to Bob Hope, then to Danny Kaye, but both turned it down because they had already done army comedies. [3]
High jump, in which athletes jump over horizontal bars. Long jump, where the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible. Pole vault, in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to jump over a bar. Triple jump, the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible, in a series of three jumps
Denise Austin, 67, shared a “low-impact,” “#FitOver50” workout video. In the video, Austin demonstrates a jumping jack alternative. The “half jack” is an effective move that is “easy ...
The term "jumping jack" refers to when somebody has taken the jack rail off and and forgotten to replace it before starting to play. In this case there is no jack rail to stop the jack moving up, so the jack actually flys up into the air about a foot or so.