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| Dumbbell Squats: Major Muscle Group: Quadriceps / Gluteus Maximus | |
| TIPS: Use a chair to practice; squatting is like sitting down. Make sure your knees do not align over the toes. |
| Lunges With Your Own Weight: Major Muscle Group: Quadriceps / Gluteus maximus | |
| TIPS: Place one foot forward, while your back foot will rest on your ball of your front part of your foot. You may feel a stretch in your back leg make sure that most of the pressure is placed on the front foot. When you lung down you want to make sure your knee does not go over you foot. Go down as far as a little passed 90 degrees. |
| Ball curls: Major Muscle Group: Hamstrings | |
| TIPS: Place feet on ball, lift glutes, lower back. |
| Ball Push-up: Major Muscle Group: Pictorials Major, Deltoid, Triceps | |
| TIPS: Place ball on body according to level. Do not let your back sink in. |
| Dumbell Chest Press on Ball: Major Muscle Group: Pictorials Major (Chest) | |
| TIPS: Ball is placed on upper back, do not want to go past 90 degrees, relax your shoulders and bring dumbbells above your chest. |
| Dumbell Row: Major Muscle Group: Rhomboid (Back) | |
| TIPS: Shoulders back, chest out, pivot your body down from the waist. Elbows should remain close to the body, when you bring arms down leave some resistance. |
| Lateral Raises: Deltoid (Shoulder) | |
| TIPS: Keep a slight bend in your arm, lift only as high as shoulder level |
| Triceps Extension on the Ball: Major Muscle Group: Triceps | |
| TIPS: Elbows pointed towards the ceiling, only come down half way and you should have full extension on the way up. |
| Bicep curls: Major Muscle Group: Bicep | |
| TIPS: Place your hands on the side, palms facing up. You want to use natural range of motion. Make sure your wrists are not bending back. Keep elbows by your side, bring up and to a point of keeping resistance, try not to swing your body or use your shoulders. |
| Abs With Dumbell or Plate: Major Muscle Group: Abdominis | |
| TIPS: Have a partner hold your fee, or hook your feet underneath a piece of furniture that will not move. Hold dumbell close to your body, use your abs to lift yourself all the way up to your knees, then bring yourself back down slowly. |
| Abs Scissors: Major Muscle Group: Oblique | |
| TIPS: Keep your back on the ground, small range of motion with your upper body. |