Contraindicated Exercises for Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a degenerative bone disease typically found in older adults, especially women, which is characterized by low bone density. Having osteoporosis increases your risk of falling and fractures.

Riana Rohmann
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Glutes That Are Sore From Squats

Muscle soreness after a good lower body workout may be par for the course, But if you experience soreness the lasts longer than a day or two, you may have damaged muscle tissue by using poor technique or lifting more weight than you are ready for.

Joshua Bailey
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Hip Flexor Tension Points

Using a computer, watching television, playing video games or any other activity that involves sitting will lead to a dramatic increase in the tightness of your hip flexors. Hip flexor tension causes a tightness to occur at your hips which makes general movements, such as walking, more difficult.

Joshua Bailey
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Can Walking Up and Down Stairs Replace Walking for Exercise?

Walking up and down the stairs is an excellent replacement for walking. Both activities elevate your heart rate and, depending upon your pace, burn calories quickly.

Nina Makofsky
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Calf Raise Benefits

Calf raises are a popular strength training exercise. You can do them as a bodyweight exercise, using only the weight of your own body to train your calves or as a weighted exercise with dumbbells. A barbell, or ankle weights provide additional resistance for muscle strengthening purposes.

Jami Kastner
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How to Keep Your Back Straight in Squats

The squat is an intense exercise that requires exact technique to get the full benefit and avoid injury. Squats engage the quadriceps, gluteals, hips, hamstrings and calf muscles. The core muscles of the lower back and abdominals also are engaged to stabilize the torso.

Ollie Odebunmi
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Lateral Pelvic Tilt Correction Exercises

The lateral pelvic tilt is a postural deviation in which one side of your pelvis is tilted to your left or right, causing one side of your hip to appear higher than the opposite side.

Nick Ng
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Situps, Hip Flexors & Lordosis

Though your spine normally curves from front to back, weak or tight muscles can cause too much curvature, resulting in bad posture, pain and injury risk. Your hip flexors are muscles on the front of your thighs.

Chris Daniels
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What Eccentric and Concentric Movements Are in a Squat?

The squat is a multi-joint exercise that recruits multiple muscles in the lower body, making it one of the most frequently used exercises for strength and conditioning.

Michelle Matte
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What Exercise Can I Do to Slim Down My Hips and Butt While Pregnant?

Exercising during pregnancy benefits both you and your baby during pregnancy, labor, delivery and recovery. While pregnancy is not an appropriate time to embark on a weight loss program, it is possible to improve muscular fitness and even slim down a few trouble spots such as your hips and butt.

Jen Weir
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Which Is Better to Give Me a Smaller Butt & Thighs: Running or Stairs?

Running and stair climbing are both effective methods for toning and strengthening the lower body.

Amanda Hynes
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What Exercise Equipment Helps Firm the Butt & Thighs?

Firm your butt and thighs with exercises that target the gluteus maximus, quadriceps and hamstrings muscles. Muscle-strengthening activities help tone and shape your buttocks and thighs.

Maria Hoven
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