Sentences with word «obliques»

Goodman et al. (2008) compared the bench press performed on a stable bench and a Swiss ball, with 1RM and found no difference in external oblique muscle activity between the conditions.

As the name suggests, this exercise targets the internal and external oblique muscles of the abdominal region.

In meetings on Monday with trade officials, Cuomo made more oblique references to Cuba's human rights record.

Physiologist have shown that when the pelvic floor muscles are engaged, the transversus abdominus and the internal obliques work at a slightly higher level to keep the lower back stable.

In bringing them together, «Character Traits» conveys not merely a set of oblique angles on life but an insouciant worldview.

If you don't have access to a cable machine, try another exercise from the Picture Directory of Abdominal Exercises, or visit the page on oblique exercises.

It works the entire core, but it is really beneficial for oblique muscles.

All of those caveats aside though, To The Wonder is still a beautiful and rewarding film, and not as oblique as it may immediately seem.

Ever since, she has been writing of a world of sport that is somehow always at oblique angles from the more familiar contests and conflicts.

I have done a few paintings specifically targeting that darkening reality, but I prefer more oblique references.

- Burpee plank jack - High knee runs - Squat with oblique crunch - Pushup with shoulder taps - Plyo lunges (2 quick, 1 deep)

Best internal and external oblique exercises are crossover crunch, Russian twist and various side planks.

If you master this stomach exercise and want a greater challenge try oblique crunches on a bosu ball with the feet up or bicycle crunches on the bosu ball with the feet up.

BE: It's interesting that you mention Frommer's because that points to the kind of oblique way that technology companies see this industry.

We also love that this ab roller features a single wheel, but it is ultra wide to offer the perfect amount of stability when you carve to the left or right for a targeted oblique workout.

Their creation, called the FiberCell, is constructed from bundles of glass - cored fibers sprayed with an inexpensive proprietary polymer that captures photons even from oblique angles and converts them into electricity.

This program is primarily made to show you how to train obliques with various Pilates movements.

External Oblique abdominal muscles are a pair of muscles that run along each side of the rectus abdominis.

And Patrick Coyle's year - long residency culminates in a publication which, like the exhibition, uses oblique references as well as unusual literary perspective, to connect the influences, incidents and his own experience of all the artists, artworks and events that have taken place during his twelve months at Wysing.

Here, buildings are loosely rendered, either in elevation or in oblique view, and set against backgrounds tinted in Expressionist hues: sullen greens, steely blue - grays, and acrid yellow - ochres.

Like Fred Zinnemann's 1948 Czech - lensed post-war classic The Search, 1945 is a reckoning with the evil and horrors of the Holocaust that pushes emotional buttons with a far more oblique approach.

Girard told me that the game would have some important story ties to both Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV, as both titles made oblique references to the imminent Industrial Revolution in the Old World.

Strengthen and sculpt your abs, back, core and obliques by training to do 200 consecutive situps.

The seated oblique twist exercise, sometimes called the Russian twist, is a very effective exercise for strengthening the abdominal muscles.

The external obliques also run diagonally but in the opposite direction.

I think, this the best workout for strengthening obliques.

Overall, the muscle thickness of the abdominals is generally greater in males compared to females and the internal oblique displays the largest difference between genders.

Ghostly figures, a theatric use of light, teasingly oblique narratives and the type of paint handling ability that can only be won over years of practice all add up to one potent image after another.

Mickelson, who was due in Houston on Wednesday after two days of «light practice» at Augusta, quit the Valero Texas Open midway through the third round with a strained right oblique muscle.

But it's rather oblique about its themes, so whether you like it or not will depend on how deeply...

Available in eight fun, trendy color duos, it features a custom oblique cut that delivers a youthful, fuller - looking pout and a perfect gradation with every swipe.

It does include oblique (non-right) trig, so be warned if you're thinking of using it for grade 10 applied (MFM2P).

Sullivan et al. (2015) also studied the effect of internal cues by having subjects focus on slowly and actively shortening and contracting the rectus abdominis and external oblique during a bent leg sit up.

Mike Zunino was placed on the 10 - day DL Friday, and his strained oblique takes a bite out of the Mariners.

Very early on in the process of doing last year's crossover, Greg Berlanti said there's probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the next crossover especially epic is if you can't increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that's a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.

Hold this motion for 30 seconds, contracting obliques throughout the entire exercise.

But strained obliques rarely make things that easy.

What Alastair Sooke, writing for the Telegraph Newspaper, calls «baffling», as the artist shifts the same oblique images this way and that, «like counters on a tabletop.»

The federal government's New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) is poised to get a makeover under a sweeping proposal that would add a new oblique frontal crash test, new dummies, and new ratings for crash avoidance and pedestrian protection.

In Paul D. Miller's (aka DJ Spooky) catalogue essay for the artist's 2010 solo exhibition at MoCA North Miami, he describes Shinique Smith's unique ability to synthesize media into «cubes of consciousness rendered into oblique strategies of envisioning, making the anonymous spaces of urban life become illuminated manuscripts of the here and now.»

It is essential to concentrate on your hips and oblique while you do it.

From here, bend your left leg and lower your left arm into the left side of your body, squeezing your left obliques.

Sometimes, Alice's poise could make her rather too oblique for ordinary mortals.

This is a mistake since these abdominal muscles are very essential for many movements, and without toned obliques we can not have a truly attractive stomach.