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If you’re sticking to the same old workout routine, you might be neglecting important muscles.
Muscle imbalances, which can make you look shorter and less confident than you really are!
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Even worse, these imbalances can lead to injuries, muscle tightness, and uncomfortable pain.
“Proper loading of the spinal column will keep you active and mobile in the later years.
You will always have to pick things up for the rest of your life.”
It’s an amazing way to work your entire body, especially your side core muscles, the obliques.
Celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson loves the wood chop, since it works many different muscles at once.
“I don’t do that many isolation movements, like single joint stuff,” Gunnar says.
“I do bigger movements.”
He suggests you try this exercise with a rear or side lunge (see below).
They are also easier on your knees than traditional squats and lunges.
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