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How to Do a Cambered Bar Lying Row

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The cambered bar lying row is a low impact but highly effective middle back exercise. Since most back exercises focus on the lower or upper back, the cambered bar lying row is an excellent way to fill in the blanks on your back work without ... more »

How to Do a Catch Polt

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When it comes to exercise, flexibility is a must. Enter the "catch polt." The catch polt is a great way to stretch the hamstrings of your legs. Popular in yoga, this stretch will also serve other athletes such as basketball, soccer, hockey, and ... more »

How to Do a Chair Squat

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Exercise often means getting changed and driving to a gym to work out. Chair squats require nothing more than a chair and make a great exercise for the office worker or anything who sits in the same position for a long period of time. Stretching ... more »

How to Do a Clapping Handstand Push Up

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Clapping handstand push ups are hard and come after handstand push ups in gymnastics... more »

How to Do a Crab Walk in Calisthenics Exercise

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The crab walk works your outer thigh and glute muscles while also giving you a good cardio workout. You do the crab walk in a squatting position. For an easier version of the exercise, just go into a mild squat. For a real workout, take the squat ... more »

How to Do a Crossover Lunge

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The best way to think of doing a crossover lunge is by thinking how women used to curtsy back in the old days. This is a great exercise to help tone and develop the gluteal muscles, the quads, hamstrings and calves. This is a modified version of ... more »

How to Do a Curl Up for Lower Back Exercise

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While it may seem counterintuitive, exercising the abdominal muscles works to strengthen the back and spine column as well. One exercise that works both abdominal and back muscles is the curl up. Follow these steps to learn how to perform a curl ... more »

How to Do a Dead Hang Pull Up Exercise

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Dead hang pull ups are a strengthening exercise for the arms. Dead hang pull ups can be performed by both male and females. One should practice pull ups regularly in order to master this exercise. Dead hand pull ups are more easily performed by ... more »

How to Do a Dip Exercise

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Dips are one of the most widely used upper body exercises. They primarily work your triceps, but they also train the muscles of your chest and shoulders. There are many kinds of dips you can do, but the easiest kind are bench dips. You won't need ... more »

How to Do a Dive-Bomber Calisthenics Exercise

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The dive-bomber is a variation of the basic pushup. Both are calisthenics exercises. The dive-bomber focuses on pressing and releasing the muscles. Follow the steps below and you can do the dive-bomber exercise... more »

How to Do a Donkey Calf Raise

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To strengthen and shape your legs for the spring and summer months, you may want to implement targeted calf exercises into your exercise routine. Donkey calf raises, although they have an odd name, can help achieve this... more »

How to do a Donkey Kick

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The donkey kick is a calisthenic exercise that targets the gluteus and lower back muscles. These two parts of the body are trouble spots for both men and women. While women usually look to tone their tush, men frequently are victims of lower back ... more »

How to Do a Double Body Blade Press

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Body blades are the perfect workout equipment for people of all ages and fitness levels and often carry less risk of injury than traditional weights. Body blades use the principles of inertia to increase your coordination and strength and improve ... more »

How to Do a Double Horizontal Body Blade Workout

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A unique piece of exercise equipment, a body blade uses the principles of inertia to create powerful resistance which not only works the major muscle groups of your body, it also reduces the changes of injury during your workout. Beneficial for ... more »

How to Do a Dumbbell Single Leg Squat and Dead Lift Exercise

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The neat thing about exercising is that you can do most of it in the comfort of your own home with little or no exercise equipment. If you want to do things like a dumbbell single-leg squat or a dead-lift exercise, all you need is a couch or ... more »

How to Do a Fire Hydrant Pose

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The fire hydrant pose is a quick, easy exercise, perfect for the indoors when it's raining outside or if you only have a few minutes to exercise. Read on to learn how to do this motion for a little thigh and backside-busting action... more »

How to Do a Fly Pushup

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The fly pushup is one of a group of exercises that add dynamic motion to classic exercises in order to call more muscle groups into the exercise. Fly pushups effectively work the chest, triceps and shoulders. However, with an added twist at the ... more »

How to Do a Front Lunge Exercise

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A front lunge is an exercise that strengthens the quadriceps, gluteus and hamstring muscles. A longer, more exaggerated lunge targets the gluteus muscles while a short lunge targets the quadriceps. You can perform lunges with or without holding ... more »

How to Do a Full Inversion on an Inversion Table

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Inversion tables are lightweight and portable, making them a great piece of fitness equipment that you can use in your own home. Additionally, inversion tables are fully adjustable so that you can decide just how far you are willing to go. If you ... more »

How to Do a Functional Fitness Woodchop Exercise

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Functional fitness places emphasis on developing working muscle with exercises that mimic strenuous movements from everyday life. The woodchop is one of the most intensive and precise functional exercises that has the ability to improve ... more »

How to Do a GHD Sit Up Exercise

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Cross training, or conditioning, is a method of combining various exercise techniques, most often cardiovascular exercise and weight training, to obtain the best results. GHD sit-ups, or glute ham developer sit-ups, are a great way to strengthen ... more »

How to Do a Girl Push Up

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A modified push up, also known as a girl push up, is a great workout for men and women. It's designed to help you develop the muscles in your chest. It also helps you build the muscles in the back of your upper arm. A girl push up might seem ... more »

How to Do a Glute Ham Raise Exercise

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If you want to give your posterior chain, specifically the hamstrings and glutes, the workout of a lifetime, then the glute ham raise is for you. A workout that only elite athletes can conquer but anyone can work at, the glute ham raise can be ... more »

How to Do a Hang Clean Exercise

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The hang clean is a solid bar exercise to get you focusing on the second half of the clean exercise and trains you to develop muscle and technique for the extension phase of a clean. As a nearly head-to-toe workout you should add the hang clean ... more »

How to Do a Hang Snatch Exercise

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The hang snatch is an effective and safe exercise that helps lifters learn a good full extension on a snatch while building strength and power across a number of muscle groups. Even though the hang snatch is a bit different from the usual power ... more »

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