Exercises

Inchworm Exercise – How to Perform, Muscles Worked and Benefits

The inchworm exercise strengthens and stretches your body and can be used as part of a dynamic warm-up, mobility routine as well as within HIIT workouts. It is a bodyweight movement that doesn’t require any equipment and primarily targets the core muscles (although your chest, back, arms and legs will also be engaged throughout). It […]

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Cable Face Pulls – How to Perform, Benefits & Muscles Worked

Cable face pulls are an effective upper body exercise that help to strengthen the rear deltoids and trapezius. The exercise is really second-to-none when it comes to activating the rear deltoids and building muscle this part of the body. Stronger rear deltoids play a vital role in improving posture and combatting rounded, hunched shoulders, as

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Spanish Squats – How to Perform, Benefits and When To Use Them

Spanish squats are often used as an effective rehabilitation exercise for those with knee injuries like jumper’s knee (patella tendinopathy). However… the exercise may also hold a lot of value for those simply looking to bulletproof their lower body to avoid picking up injuries in the first place. Similarly, the ability to isolate the quads

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Weighted Dead Bugs – Friendly on Joints, Effective at Building Muscle

Weighted dead bugs are one of our top picks when it comes to strengthening the core. By adding weight to the standard dead bug exercise, the weighted variation allows you to keep progressing the movement. Weighted dead bugs are incredibly effective at activating the abdominals and obliques, whilst also being easy on joints. This makes

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9 Tibialis Anterior Exercises To Bulletproof Your Knees, Shins and Ankles

The tibialis anterior is often overlooked in workouts… but it’s an incredibly important muscle to help reduce the impact physical activity can have on the knees, shins and ankles. It also helps to improve strength and power from the ankle and lower body, which contributes to better overall functional movement (especially agility, lateral movements, jumping

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Shrimp Squats – An Underrated Single Leg Squat Variation

The shrimp squat is a single-leg squat that builds lower body strength and improves joint mobility. The exercise primarily works the quads, glutes, hamstrings and calves… but it also requires good total body stability and balance, which engages the core too. It has a couple of variations which provide opportunity for progression, as well as

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