Sentences with phrase «elbows up close»

Be sure to tuck your forearms and elbows up close to the sides of your torso.

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Descend into a push - up, keeping your elbows close to your torso, while simultaneously pulling your left knee towards your left elbow.

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Contrary to decline skull crushers, these require you to close up the degree of bend in your elbows and move your arms closer to an overhead position, thereby accentuating long - head engagement.

ACTION: Pull the dumbbell up to your ribs area, keeping the elbow and arm close to the body.

While holding the upper arms stationary and keeping the elbows close to the torso, curl the weights up towards your head while contracting the biceps until they are fully contracted and the bar is at shoulder level.

However, keep in mind if your grip is too close, or less than 6 inches apart, you'll end up placing too much stress on your wrists and elbow joints instead of the triceps.

Keeping your chest up, upper arms close to your head and elbows in, lower the weight in a semicircular motion behind your head until your forearms touch your biceps.

Lower the weights down toward the floor, bringing your elbows close to the mat on either side of your body, then raise them back up.

Brace your core and pull your torso up until your head is at the level of the pull - up bar, keeping the elbows close to your body.

Stand up and hold the bar attachment using a pronated grip at shoulder width, elbows close to the torso.

Bend elbows (keeping them close to body) to lower body toward floor, and then push back up; that's 1 rep. Do 10 — 12 reps.

Grasp the rope with a neutral grip and stand straight up and bring your elbows closer to the body.

To achieve this, the elbow should move much closer to the torso, taking up a 10 to 20 degrees angle.

This variation activates the biceps more than any other pull - up because it uses a supinated (underhand) grip, and your elbows are kept closer to your body.

Standing straight and using only deltoid force, pull the bar up toward your chin, keeping it close to your body.Bring your elbows up to the point where the bar reaches lower to midchest level.

Stand up with an upright torso and hold a barbell at shoulder width with your palms facing away from the body and your elbows close to the torso.

Keeping your torso as straight as possible and your elbows close to the body while maintaining a natural arch in the lower back, pull your torso up until your head is at the level of the pull - up bar and focus on the contraction in your biceps.

Draw shoulder blades back and down, keeping elbows tucked close to your body for an isolated push - up or wider hands to work more of your chest, lats and open out your shoulders.

Curl the bags up towards your shoulders, keeping your elbows in close to your side.

Raise the dumbbells up and out to your side by extending your arms until your elbows reach shoulder height and your arms are roughly parallel to the floor, while trying to bring the shoulder blades as close together as possible.

Narrow Burpees: all this means is that each time you come into your push up, keep your elbows hugging in close to your sides which will target your triceps.

As you stand up, keep your arms in close and bring your elbows up to the bottom of your rib cage, thumbs to shoulders.

Keeping your elbows close to your body, lower down to a low push up position and hold there with your body hovering off the ground, abs held in tight.

From here, you're going to press your hands straight up, lifting the elbows, keeping forearms close together (they form the number 11).

Keeping your elbow close to your body, bring the dumbbell up and back toward your hip.

With the right elbow tucked close to the body, row the right dumbbell up to chest level, then lower it back down (c).

When lying down this is called a «skull crusher» as the barbell is brought close to your forehead when you flex your elbow, then back up again when you extend.

This is where you end up on your toes with the bar close to the body and elbows are out.

● Keep your elbows close to your body as you lower the bar ● Lower the weight under control ● Pause the weight on your chest for one second, then push the weight up and back ● As you push the weight up and back, flare the elbows out slightly ● Your feet should be under your knees or hamstrings, depending on your hip flexibility ● Your feet should NOT be under your butt.

Pull the dumbbell in your left hand straight up toward your chest while keeping your arm close to your body — your elbow should point up toward the ceiling.

Tight Hips or General Weakness: For this variation, you stand with your feet a bit closer together than usual and then either use a chair for your bottom hand or place your elbow on top of your thighbone, near your knee, with your palm facing up.

Mountain Climbers — Push - up position and basically run in place bringing your knees as close to your elbows as possible.

You want to slowly pull the weights up, keeping them very close to your body, and take the elbows just a bit higher than the shoulders.

Next jump feet back in and come up to standing bringing dumbbell back to start position at navel area, bring dumbbell in one hand to shoulder level, bending elbow and holding dumbbell horizontally close to shoulder, then raise it up straight towards ceiling and back down to shoulder.

When you accelerate the bag up towards the shouldering portion, keep the elbows and sandbag as close to the body as possible during the entire range of motion.

Start in pike position with wide legs, head low, bend elbows and swoop head close to but not touching floor, as head goes through arms it starts coming up at the end to a cobra position but keeping torso off the ground, hold and then swoop back in the same manner back to starting position.

Holding a barbell or dumbbells in front of your with a close, overhand grip, you pull the weight up to your chest, keeping it close to your body, leading with your elbows.

Warm Up Set: Triceps Pressdowns 2 - 3 Sets x 15 - 20 Reps (It is important to throughly warm up the elbow joint, so to this tricep exercise nice and slow, and stretch between each set) Exercise 1: Close - Grip Bench Press 4 Sets x 15 (Warm - Up), 10, 8, 6 (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) Exercise 2: Frech Press (aka Skull Crushers) 4 Sets x 15 (Warm - Up), 10, 8, 6 (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) Exercise 3: Triceps Pressdowns 3 Sets x 10, 8, 6 Reps (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) And that's it for this Terrific Tricpes WorkouUp Set: Triceps Pressdowns 2 - 3 Sets x 15 - 20 Reps (It is important to throughly warm up the elbow joint, so to this tricep exercise nice and slow, and stretch between each set) Exercise 1: Close - Grip Bench Press 4 Sets x 15 (Warm - Up), 10, 8, 6 (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) Exercise 2: Frech Press (aka Skull Crushers) 4 Sets x 15 (Warm - Up), 10, 8, 6 (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) Exercise 3: Triceps Pressdowns 3 Sets x 10, 8, 6 Reps (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) And that's it for this Terrific Tricpes Workouup the elbow joint, so to this tricep exercise nice and slow, and stretch between each set) Exercise 1: Close - Grip Bench Press 4 Sets x 15 (Warm - Up), 10, 8, 6 (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) Exercise 2: Frech Press (aka Skull Crushers) 4 Sets x 15 (Warm - Up), 10, 8, 6 (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) Exercise 3: Triceps Pressdowns 3 Sets x 10, 8, 6 Reps (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) And that's it for this Terrific Tricpes WorkouUp), 10, 8, 6 (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) Exercise 2: Frech Press (aka Skull Crushers) 4 Sets x 15 (Warm - Up), 10, 8, 6 (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) Exercise 3: Triceps Pressdowns 3 Sets x 10, 8, 6 Reps (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) And that's it for this Terrific Tricpes WorkouUp), 10, 8, 6 (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) Exercise 3: Triceps Pressdowns 3 Sets x 10, 8, 6 Reps (Lift the heaviest weight that you can and barely complete all of the reps with good form) And that's it for this Terrific Tricpes Workout.

Crunch lifting your torso up and bringing your knees up so that your elbow and knees come close together, go back to start position and repeat.

Lower to a push - up position, elbows tucked into the side (at the end of the movement, both bent arms should be close to the body with the elbow pointing upward, the wrist inline with the chest)(b).

Keeping your back flat, elbow close to your body, lift the weight up towards the right side of your chest, while simultaneously squeezing your shoulders together.

• Alternate three sets of 15 side lunges (alternate sides) with three sets of 20 dumbbell bicep curls to shoulder press (with palms up curl dumbbells into your chest keeping your elbows close to your sides, press dumbbells up, bring your arms back down, reverse curl and repeat).

Palmer's musical selections are occasionally heavy - handed, though the inclusion of a new, woozily wistful closing credits ballad by gruff British romantics Elbow ends «Man Up» on a suitably mature note.

Instead of fighting enemies, all I had to do was turn my back, let them walk up close, then use the power elbow.

For instance, if I wanted to teach my dog to take a bow, I might first click him for pointing his nose toward the ground, then for dipping his head toward the ground, then for bending his elbows slightly (as he moves his head even closer to the ground), then for bending his elbows even more, and finally for putting his elbows all the way on the ground while his hind end is still up in the air.

As Cunningham articulated his joints in a minimal dance Atlas filmed in a variety of ways with his new Super-8 camera, shooting close - ups of Cunningham's wrist, elbow, ankle, and knee.

Recorded during a break from rehearsals, the footage is comprised of close - up shots of Cunningham's wrist, elbow, ankle, and knee, capturing his unique style of movement.