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Around the World
Keep your wrists open, starting down around your thighs. Keep your wrists facing the front of you, meeting at the top, and coming down to the bottom. You can do this seated or standing with a light weight, no weights or whatever you would prefer.
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Tricep Kickback
You can do this seated or standing. Keep your back nice and flat. Bend your elbows up and out, keeping your arms nice and straight with your elbows close into your body.
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Toe Taps
Stand in front of a stable platform. Place one foot on the top of the platform. The ball of your foot will be touching the platform. Your other foot will remain planted on the ground and arms at your sides. Push off from the planted foot to bring it up and onto the platform while simultaneously b...
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Skull Crushers
Lie down on your back. Pick up a weight that you're comfortable with, with your feet flat on the floor. Hold the weights with a hammer grip, almost like you're going to crush your skull. Put your arms up, bending at the elbow, to right beside your eyes. Be very careful not to drop the weights.
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Front Raise
Lift the weights upward while inhaling. Your arms are extended, palms facing down, with a slight bend in the elbows to reduce the stress on the joints. Pause briefly when your arms are horizontal to the floor. Lower the dumbbells to the starting position (at the thighs) with a slow and controlled...
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Bent Over Lateral Raise
Lean forward, keeping your back flat. Hold your dumbbells with your knuckles pointing outwards. Raise up, slow and controlled, and bring back down.
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Lateral Arm Raise
Stand tall, a dumbbell in each hand. Arms are at your sides, palms facing in. Position your feet roughly hip-distance apart. Check your posture—roll your shoulders back, engage your core, and look straight ahead. Raise your arms simultaneously just a couple inches out to each side and pause. This...
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Bicep Curl
Start standing with a dumbbell in each hand. Your elbows should rest at your sides and your forearms should extend out in front of your body. Your knees should stay slightly bent and your belly button should draw into the spine. Bring the dumbbells all the way up to your shoulders by bending your...
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Dumbbell Thruster
Stand with the bar in the front squat rack position, holding it with your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Keep your elbows as high as you can as you lower into a squat. Keep your knees wide apart and your heels down. Lower until your thighs are at least parallel with the ground. D...
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Overhead Tricep Extension
Start standing with your feet shoulder width apart and dumbbells held in front of you. Raise the dumbbells above your head until your arms are stretched out straight. Slowly lower the weights back behind your head, being careful not to flare your elbows out too much. Once your forearms move beyon...
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Tricep Dips
Press into your palms to lift your body and slide forward just far enough that your behind clears the edge of the chair. Lower yourself until your elbows are bent between 45 and 90 degrees. Control the movement throughout the range of motion. Push yourself back up slowly until your arms are almos...
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Lateral Arm Circles
Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and extend your arms parallel to the floor. Circle your arms forward using small controlled motions, gradually making the circles bigger until you feel a stretch in your triceps.
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Arnold Press
Start light until you master the form. Hold a dumbbell in each hand with your arm bent, as in the top of a biceps curl, so your palms are facing you. Now, instead of pushing straight up, spread your arms to each side laterally, then press your arms up and twist your hands so your palms face forwa...
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Calf Raises
Stand up straight, then push through the balls of your feet and raise your heel until you are standing on your toes.
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Curtsy Lunge
Stand with your feet hip-distance apart and let your arms fall at your sides. Draw a semicircle with your right foot, moving it clockwise until it crosses behind your left foot. Lunge down as deeply as possible, hovering your knee a couple of inches off the floor.
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Jumping Lunge
Starting standing with feet shoulder-width apart. Jump your left leg forward and your right leg back into a lunge, with both knees at 90 degrees. Jump up and switch your legs in midair so that you land in a lunge with your right leg in front.
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Lateral Lunge
Start standing tall, feet hip-width distance apart. Take a wide step out to the left. Bend your left knee as you push your hips back. Push off with your left leg to return to standing.
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Split Lunge
Make sure your front knee is directly above your ankle, and your other knee gently lowers softly to the floor. Activate your inner thighs by squeezing your legs toward each other, and keep the weight in your front heel as you push back up to standing, keeping your right foot in place so you can l...
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Reverse Lunge
Stand upright, with your hands at your hips. Take a large step backward with your left foot. Lower your hips so that your right thigh (front leg) becomes parallel to the floor with your right knee positioned directly over your ankle.
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Forward Lunge
Stand tall with feet hip-width apart. Engage your core. Take a big step forward with right leg. Lower your body until right thigh is parallel to the floor and right shin is vertical. Press into right heel to drive back up to starting position.
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Close Stance Squat
Stand with your feet at around shoulder-width apart or even narrower. The feet should generally point forward in line with knees. Narrow stance squats target primarily the quadriceps, glutes, and adductors.