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Wood chopper. Engaging the shoulder, abdominal and quad muscles, wood choppers are a great shoulder-strengthening exercise that also works the entire core. Start with one foot placed on the center ...
Denise Austin recently demonstrated a core exercise to help combat “menopausal belly.” The exercise, called the "wood chop,” is “simple but effective,” she says.
Muscles Worked: A plank is a full-body exercise, but specifically, it works your transverse abdominis, rectus abdominis (aka the six-pack), internal and external obliques and scapular (shoulder ...
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
Strandpulling is the general term for the practice of stretching steel springs, rubber cables or latex tubing, as a form of exercise and as a competitive sport, using a "chest expander", with many specific movements designed to target different muscles and provide progressive resistance usually, but not always, to the upper body.
"Dynamic Tension" is the name Charles Atlas gave to the system of physical exercises that he first popularized in the 1920s. Dynamic Tension is a self-resistance exercise method which pits muscle against muscle. The practitioner tenses the muscles of a given body part and then moves the body part against the tension as if a heavy weight were ...
This circuit combines heart-pumping cardio with targeted core exercises to maximize results. Perform each exercise for 30 seconds, with 15 seconds of rest in between. Complete three sets. 1 ...
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