Not exact matches
While the act of paddling taps your shoulders, back, and core, the
muscles in your legs (including your smaller
stabilizer muscles that are usually inactive) have to pull
major overtime to keep you upright and stable when paddleboarding, especially on turbulent waters.
Various plank exercises challenge all the
major muscle groups and
stabilizers, improve strength, and prevent injury.
If you're only focused on building your
major muscle groups, chances are you are ignoring your
stabilizer muscles.
Using a Stability Ball is a great way to challenge your core
muscles and
stabilizer muscles while also working your
major muscles.
Slams require
major muscle groups and
stabilizer muscles to work together during the movement, causing an awesome exercise for raw power and endurance.
The quads are a
major stabilizer of the knee and straight leg raises can be used to re-train the quad
muscles after a knee injury.
Free weights work the
stabilizer muscles around the
major muscle groups.
Holding the plank requires the activation of all the
major ab
muscles as well as many
stabilizer muscles that are often ignored.