The Seated Barbell Twist is a great way to stretch and build your external oblique muscles. It is extremely simple but once you start you will begin to feel the stretch across the side of your abs. To do the Seated Barbell Twist you simply sit on a weight bench with either a length of pole or even a broom behind your neck. Grip the pole with your hands and keeping your chest upright and your lower torso rigid, begin
Read more Decline oblique crunches will help to tone and strengthen your External Oblique muscles. To do this exercise you will require a decline bench which are common in all gyms. With your feet on the top of the bench, lay back and then slightly raise your upper body. For the initial exercise rep place your left hand on your left thigh and your right hand towards the back of your head. Lifting your upper body, turn your torso to the left
Read more The side plank is an excellent way to strengthen your External Oblique muscles as well as toning up your abdominals. There are a number of different ways in which you can create a side plank. The first one is to do a traditional press up but on the upward movement simply twist your body over placing your legs side on with the floor and resting on your elbow. You can either have both feet straight together or one on the
Read more Stretching and strengthening your External Oblique muscles tends to go against the traditional way in which you throw items. Normally, when throwing a medicine ball you would use your arms and your shoulders to create the power. However, the Medicine Ball Rotational Throw makes full use of your External Oblique muscles (situated either side of your abdominal muscles). There are two particular variations for this exercise. In the first instance, stand a relatively short distance away from a wall with
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Jennifer Carter, Ph.D., a sports and counseling psychologist at the Ohio Center for Balanced Living, suggested that in rehab for men, walking through a therapy session is the best way for the patients to calm down and open up. That’s not the only benefit, however. Carter further explained that strolling through the therapy session also brings numerous mental health benefits to psychotherapy patients. Unfortunately, though, psychology graduate training programs seldom teach their students how to utilize exercise to change a
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We learnt the basics of our brain functions when we were in the 5th grade and were highly fascinated by what we had just learnt. There are certain things that we still do not know, or may have forgotten about the most wonderful and incredible part of our body. The brain is the only organ in the body that can control cognition, motor skills, sensory skills, and every other bodily function. Without any questions being the smartest organ in the
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With its dynamic nature, the fitness industry has been witnessing a revolutionary transformation on the back of development and inception of various trends with manufacturers vying for dais positions. That said, the speedily trending concept of functional fitness has witnessed significant momentum in recent years. The transition from being a passion for many to more of a mainstream activity, functional fitness has been hitting minds of several individuals, on the back of various health benefits it offers. With several years
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The Seated Barbell Shoulder Press is another great way to focus on developing your front deltoids and the fact that you are seated means the focus is wholly on upperbody strength and deltoid muscles. For this exercise you will need a barbell press station, which is effectively a padded seat next to the rack of weights. The starting position for the exercise is seated on the press station with your feet firmly planted on the ground and your lower back
Read more The Cable Front Raise is a very good exercise for developing your front deltoids which can be carried out using one arm at a time or using a double grip – both arms. When doing individual arms simply stand next to the cable machine with the machine set at the lowest point. Using a top grip where your fingers point downwards, simply lift your arm as it remains straight until you are level with your shoulders. Pause for a second
Read more While many people carry out various exercises to improve their deltoid muscles, there can be a tendency to ignore the rear deltoids. The Cable Rear Delt Fly is an exercise which focuses specifically on the rear deltoids. As the name suggest, this involves a weightlifting cable machine which you should set about shoulder height. The reason you set it at shoulder height is to ensure that the main focus is on the rear deltoids and not the traps or lats.
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