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  2. Crunch (exercise) - Wikipedia

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    The crunch or curl-up is an abdominal exercise that works the rectus abdominis muscle. [1] It enables both building and defining "six-pack" abs and tightening the belly. Crunches use the exerciser's own body weight to tone muscle and are recommended by some experts [ like whom? ] , despite negative research results [ citation needed ] , as a ...

  3. Sit-up - Wikipedia

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    Sit-up form. The sit-up is an abdominal endurance training exercise to strengthen, tighten and tone the abdominal muscles.It is similar to a curl-up (that target the rectus abdominis and also work the external and internal obliques), but sit-ups have a fuller range of motion and condition additional muscles.

  4. How To Decide Whether To Do Sit-Ups Or Crunches In Your ... - AOL

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    Here's a breakdown of crunches vs. sit-ups benefits, risks, and form per trainers. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...

  5. Abdominal exercise - Wikipedia

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    Abdominal muscles have many important functions, including breathing, coughing, and sneezing, and maintaining posture and speech in a number of species. [4] Other abdominal functions are that it helps "in the function of support, containment of viscera, and help in the process of expiration, defecation, urination, vomiting, and also at the time of childbirth."

  6. Calisthenics - Wikipedia

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    School children perform sit-ups, a common type of calisthenic, during a school fitness day.. Calisthenics (American English) or callisthenics (British English) (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ s ˈ θ ɛ n ɪ k s /) is a form of strength training that utilizes an individual's body weight as resistance to perform multi-joint, compound movements with little or no equipment.

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    The aircraft dispatcher and captain can then work together to calculate the exact “zero-fuel weight” of the aircraft (the weight of the plane itself plus all cargo and passengers) and load the ...

  8. 'The things I do aren't normal.' UCLA's Eric Dailey Jr ... - AOL

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    His work is reflected in his accuracy, the 6-foot-8 Dailey’s 52.6% shooting best among the team’s guards and forwards while his average of 12 points per game trails only that of forward Tyler ...

  9. Curl-up - Wikipedia

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    Curl-up or Wentelteefje (original Dutch title) is a lithograph print by M. C. Escher, first printed in November 1951. This is the only work by Escher consisting largely of text. The text, which is written in Dutch, describes an imaginary species called Pedalternorotandomovens centroculatus articulosus , also known as “wentelteefje” or ...