Exercise Database

Barbell Snatch Balance

Steps : 1.) Start by holding a barbell with light weight across the back of your shoulders, keeping your feet shoulder width apart and turned out slightly. 2.) Slowly lower yourself by bending your knees slightly then forcefully pushing yourself up so that the bar is overhead and you can drive yourself underneath. 3.) As you continue into a full squat, elevate the barbell overhead and hold for a count. 4.) Return to a standing position then slowly, under control, lower the weight back to the starting position. 5.) Repeat for as many reps and sets as desired.

Dumbbell Alternating Row (Stability Ball)

Steps : 1.) Start by laying prone with your hips on an exercise ball with each hand gripping a dumbbell and arms at the sides of the ball. 2.) Once in position, pull one of the weights upwards, keeping the other still positioned at your side, and retract your shoulder to reach its peak until you feel a stretch. 3.) Slowly return back to the starting position, alternate with the opposite arm and repeat for as many reps and sets desired.

Stability Ball Ab Curl

Steps : 1.) Lay down on a mat with your feet firmly planted on the ground and knees slightly bent. 2.) Place an exercise ball right above your abdominals with your hands on the ball, then slowly roll the ball up your thighs pausing at the top near your knees, holding this position for a few seconds. 3.) Return the ball back down to the starting position slowly and repeat for as many reps and sets desired.

Dumbbell Incline Fly (Stability Ball)

Steps : 1.) Start off by laying on an exercise ball in an incline position, with your feet flat on the floor, both hands holding a dumbbells and arms extended over your chest. 2.) Keeping your elbow slightly bent, lower the weights down until they are about chest level and hold. 3.) Return back to the starting position and repeat for as many reps and sets as desired.

Stability Ball Hip Flexor Stretch

Steps : 1.) Start off by sitting on an exercise ball with one of your feet in front of the ball and the other behind it, both feet extended. 2.) Take your hands and place them upon your forward knee and sit up straight. 3.) Move your hands back towards your hips, after your in place, and push down on your hips until you start to feel a stretch. 4.) Hold this position for a few seconds then switch sides and repeat steps with opposite leg.

Rotational Step-Up

Steps : 1.) Start by standing next to a box or bench slightly rotated so that you aren't fully facing the box, keeping your feet shoulder width apart and straight ahead of your body. 2.) Place your hands on your hips, then rotate your body and step up with one foot onto the platform. 3.) Finish the rotation by taking the rest of your body and lifting up through the hip on the opposite side onto the platform. 4.) Step down, still holding your hands on your hips, return to the starting position and repeat for as many times as you can.

Dumbbell Lunge with Bicep Curl Bowling Motion

The dumbbell lunge with bicep curl bowling motion exercise is an exercise that targets the bicep muscle using a motion similar to bowling. Steps : 1.) Start by holding a medicine ball or dumbbell in both hand with your palms facing up at shoulder height. 2.) Bring one foot back and into a lunge, keeping your front foot stationary and not letting your back knee touch the ground. 3.) While lunging bring the ball or dumbbells down and back as if you were bowling, feeling a stretch in your biceps. 4.) Bring your arm back up to the starting position, switch legs and repeat. 5.) Repeat for as many reps and sets as desired.

Smith Machine Decline Bench Press (Reverse Grip)

Steps : 1.) Begin by setting up a smith machine with the amount of weight that you want to use to perform the exercise. 2.) Place a decline bench underneath the bar and lay down with your back flat on the bench and feet out in front of you either on the floor or underneath rests. 3.) Grab the bar with an underhand, reverse grip, keeping your hands about a foot apart and release the weight from the rack. 4.) Slowly lower the bar towards your chest, feeling a stretch, and hold for a count. 5.) Return back to the starting position. 6.) Repeat for as many reps and sets as desired.

Stability Ball Stork Stance

Steps : 1.) Start by standing up straight with both arms at your side then raising up one leg with knee slightly bent and holding an exercise ball between your hands. 2.) After gaining your balance, slowly flex forward in your pelvis and extend the bent leg out behind you, keeping your body straight and parallel to the floor. 3.) While extending back with your leg, raise your arms forward with the exercise ball and extend it out in front of your body. 4.) Hold this position for a few seconds and then return back to the start. 5.) Repeat for as many reps as desired.

Dumbbell Tricep Kickback with Stork Stance

Steps : 1.) Start by standing on one leg bending the knee at 20-degrees and holding dumbbells in front of your chest with elbows bent at around 90-degrees. 2.) Slowly bend forward in your core raising one of your legs behind you creating a body line that is parallel with the floor. 3.) After gaining your balance, execute a tricep kickback by extending your elbows back and feeling a stretch in your triceps. 4.) Hold this position for a few seconds then return back to the starting position. 5.) Repeat for as many reps and sets desired.

Medicine Ball Chest Push from Stance

Steps : 1.) Start in a three point stance, with your body squatted down with a flat back and one hand on the ground keeping a medicine ball right in front of you. 2.) Reach down and grab the ball with your first step, bringing it to your chest in preparation for a throw. 3.) Take another step forward and use as much force as possible to push the medicine ball from your torso outward. 4.) Repeat for as many reps and sets as desired.

Dumbbell One-Arm Hammer Curl (Prone)

Steps : 1.) Start by taking an adjustable bench and elevating it to around 30 degrees, with your legs extended behind you and toes on the floor, and your arms in front of you with a dumbbell in one hand. 2.) Hold the dumbbell in a neutral grip and let it hang towards the ground. 3.) Slowly elevate the weight up towards your shoulders, isolating your bicep, and hold for a count. 4.) Return back to the starting position. 5.) Repeat for as many reps and sets as desired.

Dumbbell Alternating Cobra (Stability Ball)

Steps : 1.) Start off by lying in a prone position with a stability ball underneath your sternum, keeping your legs straight behind you and your arms at your sides. 2.) Squeeze with your glutes, keep your feet straight and lift your torso off of the ball in an elevated position. 3.) Extend your right arm backwards while keeping the left arm in place, return the right arm to the starting position while the left arm extends backwards. 4.) Alternate arms for as many reps and sets as desired.

Medicine Ball Bicep Curl on Stability Ball

The medicine ball biceps curl on an exercise ball requires balance and coordination while also isolating and targeting the bicep muscle Steps : 1.) Start by sitting on an exercise ball with your feet firmly on the floor in front of you. 2.) Hold a Medicine Ball in one hand and curl it up bringing your forearm up to your bicep, isolating the muscle as much as possible. 3.) Return to starting position and switch arms. 4.) Repeat for as many reps and sets as desired.

Barbell Seated High Front Raise

Steps : 1.) Start by sitting up straight at the end of a flat bench with your feet on the floor in front of you holding a weighted barbell on your knees with an overhand grip. 2.) While keeping your arms straight, slowly elevate the barbell up and over your head, squeezing your shoulders on the way up, and hold for a count. 3.) Return back to the starting position. 4.) Repeat for as many reps and sets as desired.

Child's Pose (Stability Ball)

Steps : 1.) Begin by kneeling on the floor in front of a stability ball, placing your hands on the ball with your arms extended straight. 2.) Roll down forward slowly so that your head is even with your arms and hold this stretch for 15 to 30 seconds. 3.) Return back to the starting position and repeat this pose

Revolved Abdomen Pose

Steps : 1.) Begin by laying on your back with your arms out to the sides keeping your hands at shoulder level. 2.) Take your legs and bring them up in the air whilst lifting your hips and buttocks up and to the left. 3.) Extending your heels outward, take your right leg and aim it out towards your fingertips at the side. 4.) Follow this movement slowly by lowering your left leg down to join the right. 5.) Try and hold onto both of your feet with your right hand and anchor your body to the floor with your left arm and shoulder. 6.) Turn your head in the direction of your left hand and repeat this pose for a few reps, lifting your left leg and up down towards the right and holding at full position.

Stability Ball Back Extension

Steps : 1.) Start by kneeling down and leaning into an exercise ball with your toes pointed on the floor and arms extended behind you but close to your body. 2.) With your chest rested firmly on the exercise ball, extend your spine upward pressing your pelvis into the ball and feel the stretch and strengthening of your back. 3.) Return back to the starting position and repeat for as many reps and sets as possible.