Sentences with phrase «weighted side bends»

The one weighted exercise you will not find in my programs is weighted side bends, as this could make you look wider in the waste, distracting from creating a lean image.

The exercises you do and how you do them can affect how your body changes, e.g. if you do a lot of ab exercises concentrating on your obliques (such as Russian twists and weighted side bends) you may be, unintentionally, making your waist look thicker.

Remember what I said above about weighted side bends pushing out the love handles to make you look fatter?

The best example is the weighted side bend exercise.

Not exact matches

The left knee should be bent, left heel flat on the floor, and right leg extended with your weight over the left side of your body (b).

Keeping your chest up and your torso stationary, raise the weights to the sides with a slight bend at the elbow until your arms are parallel to the floor, then lower them back down.

• Keeping a flat back, slightly bend your elbows, exhale and pull the weights away from each other laterally (to the sides) in an arc motion.

Start with feet in a wide stance, a 3 - pound dumbbell in each hand; shift weight to left side, bending right leg back.

Here's how to do it: Stand with feet hip - width apart, holding an 8 - to 10 - pound dumbbell in each hand, elbows bent at sides and weights just above shoulders.

One good use: Overhead press: Stand with feet hip - width apart, holding a dumbbell in each hand, elbows bent by sides, weights just above shoulders (A).

3 × 20 seated bent over deltoid raise 2.3 × 20 seated side lateral dumbbell rise 3.3 × 20 seated front dumbbell raise 4.3 × 6 heavy dumbell press and then superset with lighter weight.

Start slowly lowering the weights down and out on either side in a wide arc while keeping your arms as straight as possible but with a slight bend at the elbow.

Extend your right hand toward the ceiling and start lowering the weight in an arc out to the side, maintaining a slight bend in the elbow.

Breathe out and lower the weights gently to your sides by bending your elbows, until you feel a stretch in your chest muscles.

Draw the weight up toward chest by bending your right elbow, and then slowly release, returning the arm down by your side.

Walk the hands side - to - side as you transition your weight from one leg to the other, bending one knee then the other.

As you stand with your feet shoulder - width apart, take a dumbbell in each hand and slightly bend the elbows as the weights hang by your sides, palms facing one another.

Keeping hips lifted, open arms out to the sides, then bend elbows to lift weights up, palms facing in.

While holding a weight in your right hand, with your arm out to the side at a 90 - degree angle, reach up, extending your arm towards the ceiling and begin bending your body to your left side.

Bent - over lateral raise With your upper body parallel with the floor and slightly bent but rigid elbows, raise the weights out to your sides in line with your deltoids.

Sample Exercise Setup: Chest — 3 exercises, 1 incline, 1 flat and 1 decline Back — 4 exercises, 1 wide chin up or latt pull, 1 row, 1 pulley or machine row, Deads or pullovers (alternate between these two) Delts — 3 exercises, overhead press, side laterals, bent laterals Triceps — 3 exercises, overhead tricep extension with bar or dumbbell, cable pressdown, machine dip Biceps — 3 exercises, preacher curl, barbell or dumbbell curl, cable curl Quads — 3 exercises, press of some kind, extension, hack or press or squat of some kind Hams — 1 exercise, leg curl Calves — 3 exercises, standing calf raise, bent lower back calf raise (like donkey calf raises where your upper body and lower body are in an «L» shape), seated calf raises Abs - 3 exercises, weighted machine crunch, hanging leg lifts, cable reverse crunches Traps — 1 exercise, shrugs

Keeping the right leg straight, lower yourself down into a squat by moving all the weight on the left side and bending the left knee.

My favorite exercise is the dumbbell side bends and Russian twist with weight.

Keep the weight in the right leg and bend the knee as you slide the left foot out to the side, keeping the leg straight.

Quads: squat (or leg press), leg extension Leg bi: leg curl on 2 different machines calves: standing calf raise, seated calf raise Chest: bench press, cable flyes back: bent over row, pulldown traps: barbell shrugs * shoulders: behind neck press, side lateral bis: barbel curl, one arm dumbell curl on preacher bench tris: lying tricep extension, cable pushdown fores: hammer curls, behind the back standing wrist curls abs: weighted crunches, cable side crunches

Laying on their front (prone) with the arm out to the side and elbow bent as shown, the athlete rotates the shoulder to lift the weight towards the ceiling as far as is comfortable.

Then as you lean to the bent - knee side, she should continue to pull on the strap, helping you to keep your weight back, on the back leg and heel.

In a side - lying position as shown and with the arm supported and elbow bent to a right angle, the athlete lifts the weight upwards, keeping the upper arm resting against the body.

Set the 2 safety bars on each side to a height that's just at about your chest level when lying flat on the bench, and adjust the weight holder hooks to a height that's about 2 notches up from the safety bar, so your arms need to bend somewhat to lift the weights, but at the same time, doesn't require too much effort.

Shift your weight into the left side and, staying as low as you can (it's natural for the left leg to straighten a little, but don't come out of the bent knee all the way), lift the right leg straight up and out to the side, squeezing into your side butt (abductors if we're being fancy).

Keeping our eyes closed, we mentally examined our bodies, noticing how our weight was distributed, if our arms were by our sides, if one knee was straightened and the other bent, and how our back and neck felt.

You can create another progression of this exercise where you take a weight in the opposite hand, create that same compression and side bend, bring «this» up, and reach that up nice and far.

For plank rotations, start in a plank position with a weight in one hand, turn your body to that side and bring the weight up to your chest, allow your legs to turn and your back knee to bend.

• Maintaining your upper body in the same position and your arms slightly bent, raise the weights out to either side until they reach shoulder height.

The side bend targets the abdominal muscles and the obliques, but the weights are not helpful.

Face your elbow to the side so that when you bend your arm and lower the weight the dumbbell comes over the opposite shoulder.

• Maintaining a slight bend in the elbow throughout the entire movement, raise the weight up on your side until the dumbbells are parallel with the floor.

In other words, begin with your elbows bent, arms on the pads, upper arms down at your sides, and the weight off the stack to provide tension.

To make overhead pressing even more challenging for your core, instead of using a barbell use a heavy dumbbell in just one hand while standing and bend slightly to one side (bend away from the side holding the dumbbell) to help engage your oblique muscles more to help you lift the weight.

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Rubbermaid makes quality containers that won't bend or twist too much under the weight of litter or cat paws, and they tend to have high sides.

But when journalists bend too far to include «both sides» of the story, it hides that the weight of the facts lies on one side.