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Slowly bring your arms forward, squeezing your chest muscles as you reach the front. Return to the starting position, feeling the stretch in your chest. Complete 3 sets of 10-12 reps.
Strengthening the chest muscles, including the pectoralis major and minor, enhances your overall upper-body strength, making it easier to perform daily tasks that involve pushing and lifting.
The best arm exercises with dumbbells, resistance bands and bodyweight for an upper body workout to tone your triceps, biceps and shoulders. 22 arm exercises to tone and strengthen your upper body ...
A bodyweight squat exercise requires little space and no equipment. After squatting down an individual returns to standing while moving their arms back to their sides. The height of the squat can be adjusted higher or lower depending on individual requirements (i.e., someone unaccustomed to exercise may instead perform half or quarter squats).
“This exercise works on your front deltoid, an important muscle used when lifting your arm overhead,” Germano says. Stand firmly in one end of your loop band, or in the middle of a handled band.
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.
It is most common for aerobic exercises to involve the leg muscles, primarily or exclusively. There are some exceptions. For example, rowing to distances of 2,000 meters or more is an aerobic sport that exercises several major muscle groups, including those of the legs, abdominals, chest, and arms.
Muscle cramps could also potentially stem from a nerve problem (such as nerve compression), exercising in the heat, a lack of stretching, muscle fatigue, body stress, medication side effects or ...