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Pro tip: Standing ab exercises challenge your core muscles more intensely as they work to stabilize your body. These moves improve balance while engaging additional muscle groups, including your ...
Dirty dog exercise or hip side lifts or fire hydrant exercise is an exercise that is meant to strengthen the hips and buttocks, without the use of weights. It is so named due to resemblance to the way a dog urinates. [1] [2] The exercise also improves core stability.
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.
This is a compound exercise for the pectorals. Other muscles worked include deltoids, triceps, and forearms. Equipment: dumbbells, cable machine or "pec deck" machine. Major variants: incline ~ (more emphasis on the upper pectorals), decline ~ (more emphasis on the lower pectorals), cable crossover. Cable crossovers; Dips
In both versions, the exerciser fold the arms in front or place the hands on the back of the head with the elbows pointing to the sides, while performing the exercise. [2] A 45 degree back extension bench (note the different type of leg support from the Roman chair) Using a reverse back extension machine (reverse hyperextension machine)
Muscles involved in the front plank include: [8] Primary muscles: erector spinae , rectus abdominis (abs), and transverse abdominis . Secondary muscles ( synergists / segmental stabilizers ): trapezius (traps), rhomboids , rotator cuff , the anterior, medial, and posterior deltoid muscles (delts), pectorals (pecs), serratus anterior , gluteus ...
Single arm: This involves using a single dumbbell and lifting it with one arm. When both arms are exercised in this unilateral manner, it can help to ensure that the arms perform the same amount of work and any excessive muscle imbalances are reduced. For example, in a standard barbell bench press, the right arm may perform 55% of the work and ...
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