Name: Windscreen Wipers. Also known as: (if you know these by any other name, please leave a comment below). Main muscles used: Stomach, sides Other muscles used: Hip flexors, arms Top tips:
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How to: Do the Wheelbarrow
Name: The Wheelbarrow. Also known as: (if you know this by any other name, leave a comment below). Main muscles used: Stomach, shoulders. Other muscles used: Hip flexors, arms, most the muscles on the front side of the body. Top tips:
How To: Do an L-Sit
Name: L-Sit Also known as: (If you know this by any other name, leave a comment below). Main muscles used: Stomach Other muscles used: Hip flexors, arms. Top tips:
How to: Do Cannonball Situps
Name: Cannonball Situp Also known as: (If you know these by another name, please leave a comment below). Main muscles used: Stomach, hip flexors. Other muscles used: Shoulders. Top tips:
How to: Do Full Situps
Full Situp – Good Name: Full Situps Also known as: Situps. Main muscles used: Hip flexors Other muscles used: Stomach. Top tips: Start with your back and feet flat on the floor. Start the move by doing an Abdominal Crunch, but continue it by bending at the hips and sitting upright. To return, “roll” your … Read more
How to: Do Abdominal Crunches
Name: Abdominal Crunches.
Also known as: Ab crunches, crunches.
Main muscles used: Stomach.
Other muscles used:
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How to: Do the Side Plank
How to: Do the Front Plank
Name: The Front Plank
Also known as: Prone Bridge
Main muscles used: Stomach
Other muscles used: Muscles on the front side of the body
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How to: Do a Squat Press
Name: Squat Press
Also known as: Thrusters
Main muscles used: Legs, bum, shoulders, triceps, heart.
Other muscles used: Stomach, back.
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How to: Do a Shoulder Press
Name: Shoulder Press
Also known as: Overhead press
Main muscles used: Shoulders, triceps
Other muscles used: Stomach, back.
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How to: Do Buckaroo Burpees
Name: Buckaroo Burpees Also known as: (if you know these by another name, leave a comment below) Main muscles used: Shoulders, legs, heart. Other muscles used: Stomach, back, arms. Top tips:
How to: Do a Burpee
Name: Burpees Also known as: (Do you know them by another name? If so, leave a comment below) Main muscles used: Legs, bum, shoulders, arms, heart. Other muscles used: Most of the muscles in the body. Top tips:
How to: Do a Squat Thrust
Squat Thrusts Name: Squat Thrusts Also known as: (if you know these by any other names, leave a comment below) Main muscles used: Shoulders, legs, heart. Other muscles used: Stomach, arms. Top tips: Drive your feet as far back as you can reach. Drive your feet as far forwards as your flexibility will allow. Do … Read more
How to: Do Mountain Climbers
Name: Mountain Climbers
Also known as: Single leg squat thrusts
Main muscles used: Shoulders, legs, heart.
Other muscles used: Stomach, arms.
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How to: Do Bodyweight Squats
Name: Bodyweight Squats
Also known as: Air squats
Main muscles used: Legs, bum.
Other muscles used: Back.
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Woo hoo! Someone wants to do pressups!
I was in a really good mood the other day. A lass who is a regular in the gym actually came up and asked how to improve her pressups! Most people grimace and run a mile when I mention pressups to them! So here is a rough and ready guide to pressups. How to do them and how not to do them..
Now taking bookings for my first Exercise Workshop.
Don’t forget, Sunday, July 4th from 10am – 12pm. My first exercise workshop covering safe, efficient and effective resistance training techniques. Click here to book your place on line, or you can come see me in the gym at Craven Fitness Centre. Bare in mind, I’ll only be there in the mornings these next couple … Read more
Coming soon…Exercise Workshop in Skipton
After weeks of fighting to get it arranged, I’m finally in a position to announce my first Exercise Workshop here in Skipton, North Yorshire! It will be an indepth tutorial on how to do some of the main, fundamental resistance exercises and how they cross-over to virtually every other exercise you do. It will cover … Read more
The “right” and “wrong” ways to do an exercise.
I was training a person the other day, when they asked me a common question…
“Whats the right way to do a situp?”
The short answer to this is “there isn’t one“…the long answer is: