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  2. Isometric exercise - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a bench press set-up the barbell can be held in a fixed position and neither pushed upwards nor allowed to descend. Alternatively, in a mid-thigh pull set-up, a person can attempt to pull a fixed, immovable bar upwards. Example of an unweighted overcoming isometric exercise

  3. Human leg - Wikipedia

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    The leg is the entire lower limb of the human body, including the foot, thigh or sometimes even the hip or buttock region. The major bones of the leg are the femur (thigh bone), tibia (shin bone), and adjacent fibula. There are 60 bones in each leg. The thigh is located in between the hip and knee.

  4. Manual handling of loads - Wikipedia

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    This score is then added to the muscle use score and the force/load score which assigns the wrist and arm Score. Using the score of each body part posture in group B, locate the score in table B to assign a group B posture score. This score is then added to the muscle use score and force/load score which equals the neck, trunk, leg score.

  5. Thigh - Wikipedia

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    In anatomy, the thigh is the area between the hip and the knee.Anatomically, it is part of the lower limb. [1]The single bone in the thigh is called the femur.This bone is very thick and strong (due to the high proportion of bone tissue), and forms a ball and socket joint at the hip, and a modified hinge joint at the knee.

  6. Body proportions - Wikipedia

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    There are a number of important distances between reference points that an artist may measure and will observe: [1] These are the distance from floor to the patella; [a] from the patella to the front iliac crest; [b] the distance across the stomach between the iliac crests; the distances (which may differ according to pose) from the iliac crests to the suprasternal notch between the clavicles ...

  7. Adductor brevis muscle - Wikipedia

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    The main function of the adductor brevis is to pull the thigh medially. [1] The adductor brevis and the rest of the adductor muscle group is also used to stabilize left to right movements of the trunk , when standing on both feet, or to balance when standing on a moving surface.

  8. Human body - Wikipedia

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    The human body is the entire structure of a human being. It is composed of many different types of cells that together create tissues and subsequently organs and then organ systems . The external human body consists of a head , hair , neck , torso (which includes the thorax and abdomen ), genitals , arms , hands , legs , and feet .

  9. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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    The Pull-up is performed by hanging from a chin-up bar above head height with the palms facing forward (supinated) and pulling the body up so the chin reaches or passes the bar. The pull-up is a compound exercise that also involves the biceps, forearms, traps, and the rear deltoids.