The push-up is an incredible exercise. But many do not attempt it because it can be difficult and it can also be embarrassing if we’re not able to do enough of them
The Russian Twist. Fantastic for your core, but are you actually doing them properly?
The ‘Bird Dog’ is a move that forces you to not only brace your abs harder than a plank, but avoid toppling over to one side by resisting your torso’s natural torque
Daily Burn aims to bridge the gap between group classes and making them affordable, enabling you to workout from the comfort of your own home with just your smartphone
Everyone has differing ideas of what they would call their ‘king of exercises’. Walk around your local gym and you probably see lots of people that would place bench presses or bicep curls at the top of their list, but here at Short Motivation we the squat as our premier exercise.
You’ll have seen people doing it, but nearly always with a personal trainer. It’s one of the few exercises people choose to add to their own workout, making it potentially one of the most underused and forgotten exercises: the Farmers Walk.
Doing endless press-ups without any visible improvements to your pec dance? Blame biology, not your genetics. Your pectoral muscles’ main purpose is adduction of the shoulder – bringing your upper arm inward towards your body, like you do when you hit a forehand in tennis – so pushing/pressing movements aren’t terribly effective at targeting them.
Pop quiz, hotshot: what’s the best bit of training kit that everyone has in their house? No: it’s not cans of soup, which only work for curls if you’ve got the arm strength of an inactive toddler. It’s not even bottles of water, though they’re a better bet, or crates of booze – they’re handy for squatting, but at some point you’ll end up drinking them. Nope: to add variety (and function) to your home workout, your best bet’s a towel.
Until recently, little-and-often was the exercise mantra: lying on the couch all week then going on a bike-riding bender at the weekend, experts believed, couldn’t compare with doing a bit of physical activity every single day. Now that view’s starting to change.
The fitness world can be hugely overwhelming when it comes to finding the right exercises for you. There’s so much choice that even the most experienced gym-goer can be left dizzy by the options at their disposal. But this is where 10 Daily Exercises comes in.