Sentences with phrase «moving your arms overhead»

Don't be afraid to try different variations such as crossing your arms and moving your arms overhead.

Not exact matches

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.

Roll to right onto your back, bending knees slightly and bringing arms halfway down; curl up to sitting position as arms move back overhead.

The primary function of the traps is to move or stabilize the scapulae (shoulder blades), which means they're engaged most fully during shrugging movements, elevating the arms overhead and pulling the shoulders back.

For example, as you move the dumbbells higher overhead and begin to rotate the forearms, the upper arms shift out to the sides, engaging shoulder abduction which incorporates the lateral delts, while the triceps assist elbow extension.

Perform a hip hinge (moving the hips through a complete flexion to extension with minimal knee bend) with your arms overhead to give your thoracolumbar fascia (a membrane seated in your posterior thorax and abdomen) a good stretch.

Move arms to a «goal - post position» and press arms overhead, bringing them back to goal - post position 16 times as you move through full range of motMove arms to a «goal - post position» and press arms overhead, bringing them back to goal - post position 16 times as you move through full range of motmove through full range of motion.

As you inhale, raise your arms overhead into Urdhva Hastasana (Upward Salute), silently chanting Om as you move.

Press the bar directly upwards with your arms extended overhead, keep your core braced throughout the move, and hen lower the bar back down to your shoulders and repeat.

Start with the bolster under the shoulders and your arms stretched overhead, then move it under the midribs with the bottom tips of the shoulder blades touching the top of the bolster.

Move forward and outstretch your arms overhead.

BTW I taught one «form» of Toad - Frog - Phoenix sequence to my class and one of the 55 year old guys who has bad arthritis in his knees and hips was simply ecstatic that he could move from Phoenix straight up with his arms overhead.

Some of my favorite quick exercises to boost brain function are jogging in place, pumping your arms overhead, air squats, standing twists, or really anything that gets your body moving and your heart pumping a little bit.

Step 3: Lock out your arms overhead seeking to move your head as little as possible (don't tilt your neck).

Press the bar directly upwards with your arms extended overhead, keep your core braced throughout the move.

They reported that the peak moment increases as the shoulder moves from 0 degrees (arm by side) to 80 degrees (out in front) before decreasing towards 120 degrees (overhead).

In other words, the moment arm length increases as the arm moves from overhead and towards the hips.