Many of us have set up or are starting to set up some fitness goals. We either want to lose weight, tone and define existing muscles or just add strength to our lower bodies. By doing this, we are improving our overall fitness performance.

Being able to find an exercise that is multi-faceted is a plus because carving out time for a workout is sometimes hard to do. This way you are working on multiple areas with one exercise. When working on improving your lower body, one exercise that stands out is the frog jump exercise.

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Do you want to know how to get bigger hands? We mean, is that even possible? We can tell you, it is. If you’re the skeptic type, you might want to take a look at this article and see it for yourself.

It’s about a guy named Brandon Allen who grew the size of his hand from 8 ½ to 8 7/8 inches, translating that achievement to his success over his football career. “The bigger, the better” — that’s what they said.

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If you are a bodybuilder or you just train in a gym casually, the chances are that you heard phrase suicide grip. So, what exactly is a suicide grip?

Suicide grip is basically the hand position that you can use on a dumbbell or a barbell. The main difference between regular and suicide grip is that when you use suicide grip, your thumb is not wrapped around the bar.

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Squats are the type of exercise that can be done virtually anywhere – outside, inside, in the gym, on the mat. Now, will do them every day do you any good? Well, that depends. It depends on how much effort you put, what type of squats you are doing, and how intense are your reps.

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There are a lot of exercises that can make your muscles pop, and we can all agree that crunches are among the toughest. Now, butterfly crunches represent the exact opposite of what the name implies – they put quite a lot of strain on the abdominal muscles, and they’re considered as advanced ab exercises.

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The back of a human body is the column that supports your entire being, so it’s only natural that people perform bodyweight back exercises to make sure they’re strong. The muscles on our back also look extremely attractive when they’re pumped, so that’s just another reason.

The bodyweight back exercises are special forms of training that can be done with or without equipment (weights, medicine ball, etc.) and these exercises help us develop the muscle structure on our back. We will be talking about some of the best bodyweight exercises, who are they best for, how to properly do them, and more, so stick around if you want to find out.

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A very important part in having an aesthetically pleasing physique is the separation between the pecs. While being very highly sought after, this feature of a physique is found in only a select few gym-goers. Many individuals struggle with chest development and find that no matter how much they work chest, they have trouble gaining mass and getting this desirable separation between their chest muscles.

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