No matter what your fitness goals are, you'll hear a lot about the "core." Personal trainers advise core-strengthening exercises, and articles in fitness magazines come out with a new "core" exercise routine every month.
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The dumbbell pullover, which targets the pectoral muscles, can be awkward to execute. The balancing act while you're lying prone and extending a dumbbell over your head can be tricky.
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It’s essential to a well-proportioned physique to work all muscle groups. If you stick to just one or two exercises, you're leaving out a large portion of your muscles that will remain weak and undefined.
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You felt like you watched in slow motion as it happened. While running to catch the bus, you fell awkwardly, twisting your leg in the process. Now you're sporting a cast.
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Though you may have worked diligently to burn off fat, you might be thinking your legs could benefit from some thigh exercises to sculpt the muscle and provide definition. It's fairly simple to target the muscles on the insides of your upper legs.
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"Active rest" sounds like a contradiction in terms. Unless you're a chronic sleepwalker, you might not be used to being active while you rest. But active rest is a technique trainers implement to maximize the benefits of a workout.
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In your quest for fat-burning, you've already resigned yourself to doing more aerobic exercise in your workouts, but you don't know which cardio activity will burn more fat.
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Cellulite favors the hip, thigh and glute areas, but you can't target it through spot-reduction because there's no such thing. Creams, body wraps and other quick fixes are generally ineffective too, as cellulite is essentially fat, so it won't respond to topical treatments or compression.
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Unless you live at the North Pole, you probably don't have the advantage of year-round snow upon which to practice snowboarding. You may think that the offseason is only good for building anticipation for next year's snowboarding opportunities and not the time for practice.
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You may not know where your lumbar multifidi muscles are located, but you can't ignore them when you have chronic back pain. According to the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma, the multifidi are the deepest layer of muscles along your spine. You have more than one multifidus muscle.
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Even if you don't play volleyball competitively, casual play in the backyard or on a beach requires athleticism. Jumping and running, as well as serving and spiking the ball, all require strong muscles and flexible joints.
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Riding a bike is a low-impact exercise, but knee pain for cycling enthusiasts is common. The health concern that readers of "Bicycling" most frequently write to the magazine about is knees. This could lead you to think that cycling is bad for your knees, but that's not necessarily true.
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Vibrate your way to a slimmer, fitter you. Just strap yourself to a piece of equipment -- or it to you -- turn it on and watch your body be transformed. If your skepticism kicks in at that point in the infomercial, that's natural. Things that sound too good to be true usually are.
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Your biceps do a lot of work outside of the gym every day, helping you to bend your arm and lift things. They're the focal point of a nicely developed arm.
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When your goal is to burn fat and lose weight, you don't want to waste time on a method that is less than the best. Finding the optimal way to lose weight by burning fat can be difficult, though.
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If you've built your biceps to a respectable size, your forearms should have some size of their own so your arms look balanced. Besides, strong biceps aren't much good unless the rest of your arm muscles -- forearms included -- are strong enough to assist and support them while lifting, pushing and pulling.
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Personal trainers offer invaluable advice and direction. They can design a workout for you based on where you're starting out physically and what your fitness goals are.
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Physical appearance is important to adolescents, so it's natural for teens and pre-teens to want to start working out. Skinny beanpoles or pudgy babies who grew into pudgy kids may start having visions of building muscles to re-shape their bodies.
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Those with a pear body shape struggle with issues from top to bottom: slender upper bodies that are difficult to build with small bust-lines, thin shoulders and straight waists leading down to thick lower bodies that are prone to packing on weight.
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Due to sedentary lifestyles, many people experience pain and stiffness in their sacral area. It's the region that's located in your lower back, starting at your tailbone and spanning up to where your lumbar begins at the L5 vertebra.
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