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Articles by James Michelfelder
The Kettlebell Swing You've Never Seen Before
A standard kettlebell swing is a great way to strengthen your posterior chain—that is, your hamstrings, glutes, and lower back—while improving the mobility of your hips. When it comes to your upper body, however, you’re better off giving this side-to-side swing a try. For starters, this move improves your spine mobility, which deteriorates with age. And it carries over to everyday activities like golfing, shoveling snow, and chopping wood, all of which demand upper body rotation.
The Best Arms and Core Move You’re Not Doing
But there’s a good reason to take this move out of the yoga studio. Like a plank, the position tests your shoulder, arm, and core strength. It also helps with wrist flexibility, which is an asset for those who do exercises such as front squats and clean and jerks. You can also use it as a stepping-stone to handstands. Owing to its yoga origins, there’s a mind-body aspect to this pose.
How to Do a Perfect Squat
“Squats are bad for the knees” is the biggest myth in weight training. You may have heard that full squats are bad for your back, too. The correctly performed squat is a hips-dependent exercise. It doesn’t really stress the knees much at all. And the correct position at the bottom of the squat does in fact load the back. Which is fine, because the squat is a back exercise too. Look at the picture above. This is the correct bottom position of a squat.
Seattle Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez sets tone for team's whole season
ON THE RIGHT day, a great pitcher, like a great jazz musician, can conjure up a performance so magnetic it's like he's freezing time. That's what it feels like to watch Hernandez riff his way through the Angels' lineup on Opening Day. As if to punctuate the point, there's even a Seattle jazz band, Tubaluba, performing outside Safeco Field. And so it seems right to learn that the word "jazz" might actually owe its origins to the game.
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