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8 Exercises That You Are Doing Wrong

Are you one of those who is apparently conscious about your health and diet? Do you make sure that you stick to your diet come what may? It’s very obvious that given this kind of an attitude towards health and diet, you frequent the gym as well. Exercising comes naturally to you! You just feel odd when you don’t hit the gym. In fact, most people in the gym know you by now and you are a hot favourite with most people as you give them the inspiration to stay fit and keep visiting the gym without fail.

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Why then have you not experienced much difference in terms of your weight? No, you have not really put on any weight, but you have not lost much either! The kind of attitude that you possess towards work out, by now you should have toned down tremendously? Ever wondered why this is not happening? Could there be something that is possibly going wrong? Well, most gym goers do hit the gym and perform all the exercises. But, there are a few exercises that you may be doing wrong.

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Yes, there are techniques to follow when going through the ordeal of exercising. Let’s see a few exercises that you are possibly doing wrong which has led to this situation of no weight loss or body toning.

The Overhead Presses
When you tend to press the dumbbells upward while performing the overhead presses, the most common mistake that you indulge in is pushing your ribs out. This will put a definite strain on your back which can lead to a shoulder injury. Try to keep your ribs down and your knees bent slightly while you perform this exercise.

The Wimpy Lunges
Wimpy lunges are another form of exercise that tones your body. The most common mistake that you tend to make when performing is to take a baby step which stresses your front knee excessively. You can suffer from tendon stress or arthritis. Instead of that baby step, you should take a big step such that your front knee is at a two feet distance from your back knee when it bends to the floor.

Flat Abs Crunching

Obsessively indulging in flat abs crunching is going to get you nowhere. You should obviously do a mix of exercises that include core muscles along with crunching. When you start performing crunches excessively, you are actually damaging your back.

Gorilla Hamstring Stretches
With gorilla hamstring the one thing that can go wrong is when you bend over to touch your toes, while the whole body weight stays straight down. This can put tremendous amount of pressure on your spine, especially if you are slightly overweight. In case you hold on to this pose for long, you may rupture your spinal cord. Instead you should sit down while taking the load off your body. Try and reach your toes in a sitting posture.

The Side Raises
Let’s say you are lifting dumbbells sideways. When you tend to flap your arms higher than necessary when performing this exercise, you can cause the arm bone to crash along the cartilage filled space of your shoulder. Instead lift just along the bust line for effective crunches.

Bent-over Dumbbell
When you are performing a bent over dumbbell, it will cause a strain when you stick your chin out. Instead try to keep the chin down while keeping the eyes focused along the front of your toes.

Planking
Your abs toning goes ineffective when that hip of yours upwards while performing the planking inch exercises. You need to keep the body in straight line, right from the head to the heels. Hold this position for 20 minutes.

Gripped Push Ups
Some of you tend to position your hands wider than your shoulders when you go for the gripped push-ups. This can cause a tremendous strain on your shoulders. Keep your wrists directly below your shoulders when performing this push-up.

Story first published: Saturday, March 29, 2014, 16:25 [IST]
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