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Resistance Exercise

Resistance exercises are important for fitness routine. It makes the person stronger and builds muscles, reduces the body fat, increases the bone density, flexilibilty, brain health and cognitive function. It also improves posture, balance and stability. Squats, lunges, deadlift, chin ups or pull ups, lateral pull down, bent over row, pushups, bench press, triceps pushdown, and barbell curl are the most effective resistance exercises.

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The dumbbell bench press causes sharp pain in triceps. Kindly advice.

Query: Hello doctor, I participate in resistance training activities and one exercise, in particular, has been giving me problems. The exercise in question is the dumbbell bench press. It causes a sharp pain in the triceps and sometimes across the brachioradialis. There is no pain in any other exercises th...  Read Full »

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Wasiq Ali

Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. It might look like your tricep muscle imbalance or the tricep muscle fibers are not adapting to the resistance in this position. I recommend you to do not stop exercise but doing the same exercise with little to no resistance and then gradually start increasing the r...  Read Full »

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