This article will cover how you perform the Staggered Push-Up exercise.
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Its difficulty level, the equipment you need to do it. The different muscle groups that get worked when you use this exercise.
The benefits you get when adding it to your training routine. Also, some different training cues to use when you are performing it.
We will cover everything you need to know for adding Dumbbell Man Makers into your training routine.
This article will include a video, image and a written step by step description on how to do this exercise.
Its difficulty level, the equipment you need to do it. The different muscle groups that get worked when you use this exercise.
The benefits you get when adding it to your training routine. Also, some different training cues to use when you are performing it.
This lift uses a very complicated movement pattern and consists of 5 different exercises chained into one movement. This different exercises that get used are the burpee, renegade row, push-up, squat and the overhead press.
Step 1: Grab a barbell using an overhand grip(pronated) with your arms approximately shoulder-width apart. Lie with your back on a flat bench with your head near the end of the bench.
Step 2: Bring the bar back in a semi-circular motion as you extend your arms bringing the bar to the overhead position. Your arms should be over your head and perpendicular to the floor with your elbows tucked in towards your body.
You are now in the starting position.
Step 3: Inhale and lower the bar by bending at your elbows while keeping your upper arms stationary. Continue lowering the bar until your forearms are perpendicular to the floor.
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Step 1: Put the palms of your hands flat on the floor shoulder-width apart. Ground your toes into the floor while squeezing the glutes to stabilize the body. Your body should form a straight line from your heels to shoulders.
You are now in the starting position.
Step 2: Bend your left knee and slide your leg under your body. Keep your leg under you and Inhale and bend at your elbows lowering your body until your chest is almost touching the floor. However, do not let left your left leg to touch the floor.
Step 1: Set the pins on the squat rack to the desired height. It should be set low enough, so the crease of your hips is in line with your knees. Move under the bar and place it on your back in the bottom squat position, now unrack the barbell.
Step 2: Press through your heels, press your chest out and tighten your core and lift yourself up to the standing squat position.
Step 3: Now you are going to return to the lower squat position. Push your hips back and bend at the knees slowly lowering the weight back down onto the pins. Use a slow and controlled movement do not allow the barbell to just fall toward the pins.
Today's article will cover everything you need to know for adding the Tricep Cable Extension exercise into your training routine.
This article will include video, image and a written step by step description on how to do this exercise.
Its difficulty level, the equipment you need to do it. The different muscle groups that get worked when you use this exercise.
The benefits you get when adding it to your training routine. Also, some different training cues to use when you are performing it.
Since this is an isolation exercise, you will not need to add it to your training routine until you have spent several months lifting and building a foundation of strength and muscle with compound movements (multi-joint movements) Bench Press, Overhead Press, etc.
This article will cover how you perform the Reverse Preacher Curl exercise.
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Its difficulty level, the equipment you need to do it. The different muscle groups that get worked when you use this exercise.
The benefits you get when adding it to your training routine. Also, some different training cues to use when you are performing it.
Step 1: Grab an EZ-bar using an overhand grip with your hands approximately shoulder width apart.
Step 2: Put the upper part of both your arms onto the top of the preacher bench with your arms extended.
You are now in the starting position.
Step 3: Exhale and curl the bar up until your biceps are in an entirely contracted position with the bar approximately shoulder height. Pause and squeeze your biceps tight for one to two seconds with the bar at the shoulder height position.
Use this lift if you are looking to build strength and explosive power at the same time.
This article will include video, image and a written step by step description on how to do this exercise.
Its difficulty level, the equipment you need to do it. The different muscle groups that get worked when you use this exercise.
The benefits you get when adding it to your training routine. Also, some different training cues to use when you are performing it.
Remeber you are combining two different exercises into one fluent motion. The Snatch and the Squat get coupled to complete this advanced movement.
The Snatch consists of three pulls.
This article will cover every thing you should know about the Wall Throws exercise.
We will include video, image and a written step by step description on how to do this exercise.
Its difficulty level, the equipment you need to do it. The different muscle groups that get worked when you use this exercise.
The benefits you get when adding it to your training routine. Also, some different training tips to use to help make sure you are performing it correctly.
This article will cover how you perform the Trx Jump Squat exercise.
We will include video, image and a written step by step description on how to do this exercise.
Its difficulty level, the equipment you need to do it. The different muscle groups that get worked when you use this exercise.
Step 1: Use Trx straps in the medium-length position. Stand with your body facing towards the point of suspension.
Step 2: Grab a handle with each hand. Have your palms facing in. Stand far enough away from the suspension point that when you are holding the handles down, they are only a few inches in front of your waist with tension in the straps.
Step 3: Keep the Trx grips in place(by bending at the elbows) push your hips back and bend at the knees lowering your body. Keep dropping until the crease of your hip is in line with your knees.
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