A good fitness routine should include a little bit of everything. You need to perform cardio activities to improve your aerobic fitness and resistance training to keep your muscles healthy and strong. When designing your strength training plan,...
Lateral movement in yoga refers to stretching to the left and right sides. Other than reaching for your suitcase, you may not have to move laterally much in your daily life. By focusing on yoga poses that require lateral motion, also known as...
The lateral, or side, lunge, is a variation of the classic exercise that involves stepping sideways instead of forward. Like the traditional version, the exercise targets the gluteus maximus and hamstring muscles, which extend your hips, and the...
Stretching prior to a workout prepares your body for the stresses placed upon it during exercise. It also can help improve daily activity performance. Stretching expands range of motion, increases tissue elasticity and helps prevent injuries....
The deltoids are the three largest and most visible muscles in your shoulder joint. Lateral raises are an isolation exercise that targets the lateral, or side, deltoid. You can do lateral raises in different positions and with different exercise...
Lateral speed training generally helps athletes whose sports involve a great deal of side-to-side movement, such as football, tennis and basketball. In particular, lateral speed training trains the muscles of your hips and groin, helping you avoid...
A jump squat is a plyometric, or explosive, exercise that targets your leg muscles. You descend deeper into a jump squat compared to a regular jump. A lateral jump squat adds a new dimension to the exercise; you move vertically and laterally. This...
The lateral shuffle is an exercise with several different variations that help build muscle in your hips and quadriceps and work your cardiovascular system. The lateral shuffle motion mimics many sports movements, which makes it effective for...
Lateral raises are most commonly completed with dumbbells, but most fitness gyms also offer a lateral raise machine, which develops your shoulder muscles. The lateral raise is an isolated weight-training exercise, meaning it requires movement only...
Athletes are constantly searching for tools and techniques to improve their athletic ability. Specific sports have various skills that are essential for top performance. One of these skills is lateral agility -- the ability to move from...
Two types of products exist called lateral steppers: a latex tube with two ankle cuffs that you wear on your ankles to do exercises for leg strength training, and lateral steppers that resemble mini stair steppers and are used for cardio workouts....
Lateral shuttle exercises are factors in sports training, step aerobics, walking programs and home exercise video routines. Adding them to your daily exercise routine will help to strengthen and tone your hips, thighs and buttocks. Additionally,...
Exercise bands offer a convenient way to work out with resistance when you are at home, at the park or traveling. Bands are light, versatile and portable. They are available in several colors and tensions. Use a light to medium band to do lateral...
There are at least 640 skeletal muscles within the typical human body and most act in well-coordinated pairs, whether they be positioned in the anterior/posterior plane or medially/laterally. For ease of reference, muscles of your body are...
Lunges are an effective body weight exercise that targets the hamstrings, quadriceps and gluteus muscles. Though traditional forward lunges are perhaps more commonly used in workouts, the lateral lunge should not be overlooked. Lateral lunges work...
The lateral slide is an exercise working the primarily the cardiovascular system and quadriceps. This exercise is often used in basketball and baseball drills during practice to build strong legs, endurance and speed. No special equipment is...
Wrestling is a sport that requires strength, speed, endurance and strategy if you hope to succeed on the mat. Different holds and throws are a major part of wrestling, and important in the course of a match to weaken your opponent and score points...
A well-planned resistance training program incorporates exercises in all three planes of motion: the sagittal, transverse and frontal planes. The sagittal plane contains forward and backward movements, while the transverse plane contains...
Lateral raises are a single-joint strength exercise for the shoulder muscles. Use a cable machine to perform lateral raises in a lying or standing position. Adjust the range of motion of the exercise by changing your body position in relation to...
Strengthening the muscles surrounding the lateral knee is important with regard to injury prevention and injury rehabilitation. Lateral movement is common in most sports and activities, including, tennis, soccer, football, hiking, cycling and...
Physiotherapy is classified as a health care profession and is concerned with human function, movement and maximizing potential. Physiotherapists use manual therapy, therapeutic exercise and electrophysical modalities to help patients overcome...
Your body does not move in only one direction. There are three planes of in which your body moves: transverse, sagittal and frontal. Lateral, or side to side, movements happen in the frontal plane and are important not only for daily life, but...
Numerous conditions can cause lateral hamstring tendinopathy. The term tendinopathy describes an injury to a tendon. Tendons consists of a fibrous material, connect muscle to bone and help move joints. There are two principle types of...
Lateral exercises focus on your lateral deltoid --- middle of your shoulder. Focusing on this portion of your shoulder adds size and shape to your deltoid and helps stabilize the other muscle heads of your deltoid --- anterior and posterior. By...
To build large, rounded shoulders, incorporate dumbbell lateral raises into your shoulder routine. This exercise will help enhance the width of your shoulders, giving the appearance of a smaller waist. A dumbbell lateral raise engages the muscles...
Plyometric exercises involve a slow lengthening of a muscle followed by a fast contraction. Athletes strategically use these to improve their power and because they often mimic the action seen in a particular sport. This is called sport-specific...
The oblique muscles on the sides of the abdomen perform several actions, but for a lateral workout you do exercises that take your spine through lateral flexion. Lateral flexion means to bend the spine sideways, which is one of the ways to target...
A well-balanced fitness regimen includes exercises from all three planes of movement. The "sagittal plane" describes exercises with a forward-and-backward movement, such as lunges or bicep curls. Exercises in the "transverse...
You can stabilize your torso during Pilates exercises using a lateral breathing technique, according to Ellie Herman, author of "Ellie Herman's Pilates Props Workbook." While the front of your ribcage stays closed in this corseting technique, the...
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