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The farmer's walk may look unusual, but it's a very effective strength exercise. To do it, pick up one or two dumbbells, hold them by your sides and walk around your training area for a distance, like 30 yards, or a time, like 60 seconds.
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You can perform side bends with weights to develop muscle strength or as a body weight exercise to develop spinal mobility. Whichever type of side bend you perform, it is important that you only lean sideways and do not allow your body to twist. Another important factor is to avoid bending too far.
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Bent-over dumbbell rows are compound free-weight exercises that use many of your upper-body muscles. Similar to the bent-over barbell row, the supported position commonly used in the dumbbell version places less stress on your lower back and may be a safer option for anyone with lower back issues.
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Spending long periods of time sat at a desk, hunched over a computer or driving can result in pulled forward or protracted shoulders and a rounded upper back. In addition, a badly designed exercise program that involves too many pushing exercises and too few pulling exercises can also cause the same problem.
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People exercise for a variety of reasons -- from weight management to improved levels of strength for sports. If you want to improve any aspect of your physical performance, you need to adhere to the exercise principles. These principles can be thought of as signposts to success.
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Performing weight training workouts on a regular basis gives you a wide variety of benefits, including increased bone mass, improved strength for everyday activities, elevated metabolism and increased muscle tone.
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Itβs often easy to overlook the effect that exercise has on the skeletal system because the bones and other associated skeletal organs are very much out of sight and out of mind.
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Whether you work out exclusively at home or only when you can't make it to the gym, there are numerous exercises you can perform for your pectoralis major muscles, or pecs for short.
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Power describes your ability to generate force quickly, an important quality if you are involved in sports. Throwing a baseball, kicking a soccer ball, sprinting and jumping are all examples of power activities, and there are exercises and drills you can use to help develop power.
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Circuit training involves moving through a series of exercises with little or no rest in between exercises.
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Popular with athletes and the military, burpees can be used in circuit training or as a standalone workout. Burpees employ a large number of muscles in the motion of flowing through a squat, a single pushup, a jump and then repeating the motions.
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Your circulatory system consists of your heart, blood vessels and blood, and is responsible for transporting life-giving oxygen throughout your body. When you exercise, your body's need for oxygen increases; the harder you work out, the more oxygen your body demands.
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The upright row is a common strength-training exercise. Popular with bodybuilders, athletes and general exercisers alike, the upright row is usually performed with the aim of increasing upper-back and shoulder muscle size.
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Your latissimus dorsi muscles, lats for short, are located on the side of your back and link your arms to your torso. These large, wing-shaped muscles are responsible for extension and adduction of your shoulder joint, as well as medial rotation -- the action of turning your arm in toward the mid line of your body.
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