Are you tired of doing the same old push-up everyday? We've got something to spice it up! Here's our strength and conditioning coach, Shubhag, explaining the different variations and methods on how to do push ups.
1 Wide Hand Pushup
2 Regular Pushup
3 Diamond Pushup
4 Planche Pushup
5 Explosive Pushup
You ask what a "Power Clean" is? The "Power Clean" is an olympic weight lifting explosive exercise. It is a great workout for your whole body. It is an advanced and technical exercise consisting of various drills to get a perfect power clean.
Here's our strength and conditioning coach, Shubhag, explaining the right method on how to do a power clean.
It is a combination of a lot of movements such as deadlift, muscle cleans, squats. We have broken it down as:
1 Clean Grip Deadlift
2 Hip Thrust and High Pull
3 Receiving the Barbell
4 Muscle Clean
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Another winner of a day for India with Sathish Kumar Sivalingam claiming Gold in the men’s 77 kg weightlifting category at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. He faced competition from England’s Jack Oliver who ultimately won the silver.
Counting this Gold, it is India’s 5th medal so far in Commonwealth Games 2018.
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, the 23-year-old became the most powerful woman in the Commonwealth Games when she lifted in the categories of snatch (86kg), clean and jerk (110) and total (196kg) in the 48kg category in Commonwealth Games 2018 on Thursday. Mirabai Chanu set a Commonwealth Games record with each of her attempts. She dominated the field in the women's 48kg category. She had been training in Melbourne since March and her next goal is Asian Games. If this was a reason enough to cheer, on day 2 weightlifter Sanjita Chanu won Gold in Weightlifting in women's 53 kg category. India had a great start this year with also Gururaja lifting a total of 249kg in Men's 56kg category winning Silver at Gold Coast...
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Are you a no breakfast person as well? If yes, then you are like me and you must read this blog to know what my experience was when I started having breakfast after many years.
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