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Having strong legs can improve your speed and explosiveness in performance-related activities, like field sports and running. Strengthening these muscles can also help to protect the hips, knees ...
Alligator mouth flies. Stand with your feet hips-distance apart with slightly bent knees. Hinge forward at the waist slightly. Pull your abs in. Dangle your arms down and then reach the right arm ...
Leg raises; Lying on the back, hands in fists under buttocks, move feet up and down. L-sit; The L-sit is an acrobatic body position in which all body weight rests on the hands, with the torso held in a slightly forward-leaning orientation, with legs held horizontally so that each leg forms a nominal right-angle with the torso.
With legs together, toes pointed, and body fully extended, the feet begin to descend. The upper body hollows very slightly until the gymnast passes through horizontal. [ 1 ] On the upswing, the abdominal muscles are engaged to slightly arch the body and prevent anterior pelvic tilt, which adversely affects the strength of the swing. [ 2 ]
An image of a bridge position with straight legs. The body is pushed over the shoulders to enable straight vertical arms, stretching the shoulders and upper body. The bridge (also called gymnastic bridge [1]) is an exercise. Many variations of this exercise are employed throughout the world, most commonly the balancing of the body on the hands ...
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The flare is an acrobatic move in which the performer alternates balancing the torso between either arm while swinging the legs beneath in continuous circles. It is a fundamental b-boying/bgirl power move, and in gymnastics it may be performed on a pommel horse or during the floor exercise.
A cartwheel performed by a gymnast at the 2019 Junior World Championships.. To perform a cartwheel, one moves sideways in a straight line, keeping the back straight, butt and core tight and head in; places the hand of the same side on the ground, followed by the other hand; kicks the legs over the body and brings them down as the hands and body come up to a standing position.