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Core Exercises

Build stronger, more defined core with these proven exercises

73exercises found

Archer Push Up

Advanced
Pectorals

The archer push up is a hard exercise using your own body weight. It strengthens your chest, arms, shoulders, and tummy muscles. To do it, you perform a push-up while reaching one arm straight out to the side. This makes the bending arm work much harder and requires good balance and strength.

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Barbell Clean-grip Front Squat

Intermediate
Glutes

This lower body exercise uses a barbell to work your glutes, front thigh muscles, and back thigh muscles. Your core muscles help you stay balanced. You hold the bar on the front of your shoulders using a specific grip. This move requires you to be strong and flexible.

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Barbell Full Squat

Intermediate
Glutes

The barbell full squat is a lower body exercise that builds strength in your legs and hips. It also works your stomach muscles to keep you steady. To do it, you rest a heavy bar on your upper back and squat down, balancing carefully as you move.

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Barbell Full Squat (side Pov)

Intermediate
Glutes

This is a leg exercise where you hold a heavy bar on your upper back. It makes your bottom and leg muscles strong. You lower yourself down like you are sitting in a chair, and then you stand back up.

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Barbell Full Zercher Squat

Advanced
Glutes

This is a lower body exercise where you hold a barbell inside the bends of your elbows. It works your butt, legs, and stomach muscles. You need a strong core to stay steady because of where you hold the bar.

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Barbell Skier

Intermediate
Delts

The barbell skier is an active shoulder exercise. You hold a barbell and do a small jump while lifting the bar up. This move works your shoulder muscles and uses your arm and tummy muscles to help you stay steady.

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Dumbbell Alternate Side Press

Intermediate
Delts

This is a shoulder workout where you lift one dumbbell straight up while the other stays at your shoulder. It helps make your shoulders, arms, and tummy muscles stronger.

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Dumbbell Burpee

Advanced
Cardiovascular system

The dumbbell burpee is a tough exercise for your whole body. It mixes a squat, a push-up, and a lift over your head with dumbbells. It makes your heart beat faster and works many muscles at once, like your legs, arms, and stomach.

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Dumbbell One Arm Press On Exercise Ball

Intermediate
Pectorals

This exercise is a single-arm shoulder press performed while sitting on a stability ball. It builds strength in your chest, shoulders, and triceps while forcing your core muscles to work hard to keep you balanced.

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Dumbbell Push Press

Intermediate
Delts

This exercise works your shoulder muscles, arms, and core. You use a small bend in your knees to help push the weights up high. It is a fast movement that uses both strength and power.

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Dumbbell Side Plank With Rear Fly

Advanced
Upper back

This exercise combines a side plank with a shoulder movement. You hold your body steady on your side to work your core, while lifting a weight with your top arm to strengthen your upper back and shoulder. It tests your balance and strength.

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Dumbbell Single Arm Overhead Carry

Intermediate
Delts

This exercise strengthens your shoulder muscles and helps your stomach muscles stay tight. It tests how steady you can keep your arm and body while walking with a weight held high above your head.

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Dumbbell Standing Alternate Overhead Press

Beginner
Delts

This shoulder exercise is done while standing up. You push a dumbbell over your head with one arm, then the other. It works your shoulder muscles and uses your arm and stomach muscles to keep you steady.

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Dumbbell Standing One Arm Palm In Press

Intermediate
Delts

This standing exercise builds strong shoulders using one arm at a time. You hold a dumbbell with your palm facing inward and push it straight up. It also uses your arm and tummy muscles to keep your body steady.

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Dumbbell Sumo Pull Through

Beginner
Glutes

This lower-body exercise builds strong glutes while also working your thighs and core. It combines a wide-stance squat with a hip-bending motion, using a dumbbell to create resistance.

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Exercise Ball One Leg Prone Lower Body Rotation

Intermediate
Glutes

Lie on your stomach on a stability ball. Lift one leg straight back and turn it outward while keeping the rest of your body still. This exercise strengthens your bottom and helps you balance.

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Exercise Ball Pike Push Up

Advanced
Pectorals

The exercise ball pike push up is a tough workout for your upper body and tummy muscles. It mixes a pike pose with a push-up while your lower legs rest on a large stability ball. This move mainly works your chest but also strengthens your shoulders, arms, and core to keep you steady.

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Farmers Walk

Beginner
Quads

This exercise involves walking while holding a weight in each hand. It works your legs, arms, and stomach muscles. It helps make your grip stronger, keeps your body steady, and improves your overall fitness.

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Front Lever Reps

Advanced
Upper back

The Front Lever is a tough bodyweight exercise that builds strength in your upper back, stomach muscles, and shoulders. You must keep your body tight and stiff like a board while hanging sideways from a bar.

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Full Planche Push-up

Advanced
Pectorals

This is a very hard exercise that uses your own body weight. It works your chest, shoulders, arms, and tummy muscles. You need to be very strong and have good balance. You do a push-up while holding your whole body up in the air using only your hands.

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Glute Bridge Two Legs On Bench (male)

Beginner
Glutes

This bodyweight exercise builds strong glutes while also working your hamstrings and core. It involves resting your upper back on a bench and lifting your hips from the ground until your body forms a straight line from your knees to your shoulders.

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Handstand

Advanced
Triceps

The handstand is a move where you hold your body upside down using your hands. It mostly works your arm muscles, but also uses your shoulders and tummy. You need to be strong and have good balance to do it safely.

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Jack Burpee

Advanced
Cardiovascular system

The Jack Burpee is a fast, full-body exercise. It combines a squat, a push-up, and a big jump into one movement. This exercise gets your heart beating fast and strengthens many muscles at the same time.

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Kettlebell Alternating Hang Clean

Intermediate
Forearms

This is an energetic exercise. It works your lower arms, shoulders, upper back, and stomach muscles. You need to be strong and move with care. You will lift the weight from a hanging spot to your shoulder, switching arms each time.

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Kettlebell Alternating Press

Intermediate
Delts

This shoulder exercise uses two kettlebells. You push one weight up at a time while switching arms. It builds strong shoulders and helps your arms and tummy stay steady.

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Kettlebell Alternating Renegade Row

Advanced
Upper back

This exercise works your upper back, core, and shoulders all at once. You hold a plank position on kettlebells and lift one weight at a time. This tests how strong and steady you can be.

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Kettlebell Double Jerk

Advanced
Delts

This exercise uses two kettlebells. You hold them at your shoulders and push them over your head. You must use strength from your legs and your upper body to move the weights up quickly and safely.

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Kettlebell Double Push Press

Intermediate
Delts

This exercise works your shoulders. It uses a strong push from your legs to help move two kettlebells high above your head. You need to be strong and careful to do it the right way.

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Kettlebell Double Snatch

Advanced
Delts

The kettlebell double snatch is a full-body exercise that works your shoulders, back, arms, and stomach muscles. It uses fast, strong movements. You need to focus and use the right form to do it safely.

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Kettlebell One Arm Clean And Jerk

Advanced
Delts

The kettlebell one arm clean and jerk is a strong, full-body move. It works your shoulders, triceps, and core all at once. You need good balance, power, and the right form to do it safely and well.

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Kettlebell One Arm Jerk

Intermediate
Delts

The kettlebell one arm jerk is a move where you use your legs and hips to help push a weight overhead with one arm. It builds power and strength in your shoulders, arms, and tummy.

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Kettlebell One Arm Military Press To The Side

Intermediate
Delts

The kettlebell one arm military press to the side is a single-arm exercise where you push a weight straight up over your head. It mainly builds muscle in your shoulders, while also working your triceps and helping your core stay steady. You need good balance, coordination, and shoulder strength to do it right.

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Kettlebell One Arm Push Press

Intermediate
Delts

This exercise works your shoulder, arm, and stomach muscles. You hold a kettlebell in one hand and push it straight up over your head. You use a small jump with your legs to help push the heavy weight up.

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Kettlebell One Arm Snatch

Advanced
Delts

This exercise is a fast, full-body move that focuses on your shoulders. It also works your upper back, arms, and tummy muscles. You need to use power, good timing, and the right form to do it safely and well.

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Kettlebell Plyo Push-up

Advanced
Pectorals

The kettlebell plyo push-up is a hard exercise where you do a push-up on two kettlebells and jump your hands up in the air. It works your chest, arms, shoulders, and stomach muscles. You need to be very strong and steady to lift your hands and land safely.

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Kettlebell Seated Press

Intermediate
Delts

This is a shoulder exercise you do while sitting down. You push kettlebells up over your head to work your shoulder muscles. It also helps strengthen your arm muscles and your tummy muscles.

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Kettlebell Seesaw Press

Intermediate
Delts

This is a shoulder exercise where you lift two kettlebells. You push one weight up while the other comes down, moving your arms back and forth like a seesaw to build strength and balance.

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Kettlebell Swing

Intermediate
Glutes

The kettlebell swing is a moving exercise that works your bottom, legs, and tummy muscles. You swing a heavy weight between your legs and then up to your shoulders by pushing your hips forward fast.

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Kettlebell Thruster

Intermediate
Delts

This exercise mixes a squat with an overhead press. It works your shoulder muscles along with your legs and stomach. You need to be strong and have some practice holding a kettlebell to do it right.

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Kettlebell Turkish Get Up (squat Style)

Advanced
Glutes

The kettlebell Turkish get up (squat style) is a hard exercise for your whole body. It mostly works your bottom muscles, but also makes your legs and stomach strong. You need good balance and strength to do it because it has many steps.

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Kipping Muscle Up

Advanced
Lats

This exercise mixes a pull-up with a dip. You use a swinging motion to help move your body from under the bar to the top of it. It works your back muscles and requires a lot of upper body strength and speed.

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Low Glute Bridge On Floor

Beginner
Glutes

This exercise uses your own body weight to strengthen your butt muscles. It also helps your leg muscles and tummy. You do it by lying on your back, lifting your hips up, and squeezing your butt.

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Medicine Ball Catch And Overhead Throw

Intermediate
Lats

This exercise is a strong movement that uses your shoulders, back muscles, and stomach muscles. You will squat down, throw a weighted ball straight up into the air, and then catch it as it comes back down.

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Medicine Ball Chest Push With Run Release

Intermediate
Pectorals

This is a fast-moving exercise. You push a heavy ball away from your chest, then run to catch it. It works your chest, arms, shoulders, and tummy muscles. You need to be strong, fast, and careful to do it well.

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Medicine Ball Overhead Slam

Intermediate
Upper back

This is an active exercise where you lift a heavy ball overhead and throw it down hard. It uses your whole body, especially your back, shoulders, and stomach muscles.

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Modified Hindu Push-up (male)

Intermediate
Pectorals

The modified Hindu push-up is a bodyweight exercise that works your chest, arms, shoulders, and stomach muscles. It mixes a standard push-up with a yoga-style stretch. This movement helps build strength and improves how well your body moves.

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Mountain Climber

Beginner
Cardiovascular system

Mountain climbers are an exercise where you act like you are running while holding yourself up on your hands and toes. This movement works your heart and strengthens your stomach, shoulders, and arms.

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Pelvic Tilt Into Bridge

Beginner
Glutes

This bodyweight exercise strengthens your bottom, the back of your legs, and your stomach muscles. You tilt your hips and lift your body up to make a bridge shape, then slowly lower yourself back down.

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Pike-to-cobra Push-up

Advanced
Glutes

This moving bodyweight exercise mixes a push-up, a pike, and a cobra pose together. It mainly works your bottom muscles, but it also uses your tummy, shoulders, and the back of your arms. You need strength, flexibility, and good balance to switch between the upside-down V shape and the cobra stretch.

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Plyo Push Up

Advanced
Pectorals

This is a powerful bodyweight exercise that builds strong chest muscles while working your arms, shoulders, and core. You have to push off the floor so hard that your hands fly up in the air. It helps you build power, strength, and coordination.

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