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Plank
This is a great exercise to asses your core strength and stability. Your fitness level relies on those deep, stabilizing muscles that are in the trunk of your body. Your core strength and fitness can be assessed by practicing holding the plank position for as long as you can. Proper planks are held with the forearms on the floor, toes curled under, and your back straight and parallel to the floor. Doing this exercise each day will increase core muscles and overall fitness.
Juming Jacks
As kids, this part of our fitness level was certainly up to par, and used often. However, when you get older it is a much looked over part of overall health that can indicate the power exertion your body possesses as well as the power in your muscle fibers. See how high you can jump with markings on a wall or a 2-foot tall box.
Burpees
This full body exercise is a good way to indicate your fitness level if you can do even a few in a row. A burpee is an intense workout that challenges your muscular fitness, cardiovascular fitness, endurance and body power. Perform as many as possible in one minute to really test and push your fitness level.
Knee exercises
can be a basic or as intense as you want. Leg press and leg curl machines exercise your knees and you can add weight as you become stronger.
If you do not want to use machines you can also perform leg lifts, short-arc leg extensions, partial squats, hamstring curls, and leg swings. Make sure that you perform movements which put resistance on your knee and legs from various angles and directions. This will increase your knee support through a full range of activities. Finally, any exercise which reduces weight will benefit your knees because it will lighten the load on your joints.
An important aspect to knee fitness over 50 is to strengthen the supporting muscles in your thighs and calves. You also need to keep the tendons attached to your knee flexible.
Yoga is an excellent way to stretch and tone your muscles and tendons. A yoga instructor should be able to recommend specific movements that will benefit your knee. Also, Pilates uses your body weight as resistance and strengthens your leg muscles.
Wall Squat
This exercise is especially difficult on your core and if you've got mobility problems. To make it easier consider setting your feet slightly farther out from the wall. As with a typical squat, you may also insert ½"-1" weights under your heels should you have trouble getting to depth while keeping your torso upright. Just make sure that you continue to focus on your flexibility so that you can eventually carry out the movement with no plates.
Lunges
When trying to develop your legs and butt it is hard, and there is just no easy way around this. Now there are very few good yet easy exercises for the legs, but the closest we could find is the lunge, and this article will quickly talk about what lunges are and how they may benefit you in your training.
Lunges are for losers, and I mean that in the most positive way! Lunges are an absolutely great way to tighten your butt, and are also a great exercises for your thighs. The lunge is an exercise like squats which are considered multi-joint or compound exercises.
As mentioned above lunges are a great exercise for your thighs; just remember that whenever you add a new or different exercise to your routine, you should do so slowly and carefully. Any changes you make to your exercise routine may result in soreness for the next few days. Lunges are generally considered to be fairly easy in terms of lower body exercises go, but some people simply cannot perform lunges correctly due to injury, musculoskeletal misalignments, poor flexibility or coordination. The key to doing lunges is to have good technique, and with proper technique comes better results also. Lunges are done holding dumbbells or without any weight for beginners. Start in a standing position and then step forward without your upper body leaning forward until your lead knee is 90 degrees.
Doing lunges is not rocket science as you can see for the above mentioned technique, but they are still fairly difficult to do and even more so if you add weight to them in the form of a barbell on the shoulders or dumbells held in your hands. Please don't think for a second adding lunges to your exercise routine is going to be a cake walk because you are sadly mistaken and will pay for it. This exercise will pay off huge if done correctly, and you will see drastic changes in leg strength and size.
Crunches
Indeed men and women pay much attention to shape up and firm up their abs. In fact, a number of the fitness machines have been developed to specifically address this growing concern. For men and women, being able to wear shirts that fit your body or show some skin is fashionable but you just cannot get into the fad but end up with embarrassment for flaunting flabby and fatty abs...
This is a great exercise to asses your core strength and stability. Your fitness level relies on those deep, stabilizing muscles that are in the trunk of your body. Your core strength and fitness can be assessed by practicing holding the plank position for as long as you can. Proper planks are held with the forearms on the floor, toes curled under, and your back straight and parallel to the floor. Doing this exercise each day will increase core muscles and overall fitness.
Juming Jacks
As kids, this part of our fitness level was certainly up to par, and used often. However, when you get older it is a much looked over part of overall health that can indicate the power exertion your body possesses as well as the power in your muscle fibers. See how high you can jump with markings on a wall or a 2-foot tall box.
Burpees
This full body exercise is a good way to indicate your fitness level if you can do even a few in a row. A burpee is an intense workout that challenges your muscular fitness, cardiovascular fitness, endurance and body power. Perform as many as possible in one minute to really test and push your fitness level.
Knee exercises
can be a basic or as intense as you want. Leg press and leg curl machines exercise your knees and you can add weight as you become stronger.
If you do not want to use machines you can also perform leg lifts, short-arc leg extensions, partial squats, hamstring curls, and leg swings. Make sure that you perform movements which put resistance on your knee and legs from various angles and directions. This will increase your knee support through a full range of activities. Finally, any exercise which reduces weight will benefit your knees because it will lighten the load on your joints.
An important aspect to knee fitness over 50 is to strengthen the supporting muscles in your thighs and calves. You also need to keep the tendons attached to your knee flexible.
Yoga is an excellent way to stretch and tone your muscles and tendons. A yoga instructor should be able to recommend specific movements that will benefit your knee. Also, Pilates uses your body weight as resistance and strengthens your leg muscles.
Wall Squat
This exercise is especially difficult on your core and if you've got mobility problems. To make it easier consider setting your feet slightly farther out from the wall. As with a typical squat, you may also insert ½"-1" weights under your heels should you have trouble getting to depth while keeping your torso upright. Just make sure that you continue to focus on your flexibility so that you can eventually carry out the movement with no plates.
Lunges
When trying to develop your legs and butt it is hard, and there is just no easy way around this. Now there are very few good yet easy exercises for the legs, but the closest we could find is the lunge, and this article will quickly talk about what lunges are and how they may benefit you in your training.
Lunges are for losers, and I mean that in the most positive way! Lunges are an absolutely great way to tighten your butt, and are also a great exercises for your thighs. The lunge is an exercise like squats which are considered multi-joint or compound exercises.
As mentioned above lunges are a great exercise for your thighs; just remember that whenever you add a new or different exercise to your routine, you should do so slowly and carefully. Any changes you make to your exercise routine may result in soreness for the next few days. Lunges are generally considered to be fairly easy in terms of lower body exercises go, but some people simply cannot perform lunges correctly due to injury, musculoskeletal misalignments, poor flexibility or coordination. The key to doing lunges is to have good technique, and with proper technique comes better results also. Lunges are done holding dumbbells or without any weight for beginners. Start in a standing position and then step forward without your upper body leaning forward until your lead knee is 90 degrees.
Doing lunges is not rocket science as you can see for the above mentioned technique, but they are still fairly difficult to do and even more so if you add weight to them in the form of a barbell on the shoulders or dumbells held in your hands. Please don't think for a second adding lunges to your exercise routine is going to be a cake walk because you are sadly mistaken and will pay for it. This exercise will pay off huge if done correctly, and you will see drastic changes in leg strength and size.
Crunches
Indeed men and women pay much attention to shape up and firm up their abs. In fact, a number of the fitness machines have been developed to specifically address this growing concern. For men and women, being able to wear shirts that fit your body or show some skin is fashionable but you just cannot get into the fad but end up with embarrassment for flaunting flabby and fatty abs...
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