What part of your body does jumping jacks target?
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All parts.\nCardio-vascular system, because it gets your heart rate up.\nStretches muscles in the legs, back, arms, torso, and neck.\n\nIt does not actually "target" any one group or area, if that helps.  It is a general warm-up exercise.
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Your butt muscle! hee hee :P
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Yes, the main muscles to stretch to do a split and high kick are your hamstrings, your adductors, and your hip flexors and hip rotators.  \n\nFor hamstrings, do poses like uttanasana (standing forward bend), supta padangusthasana (reclined big toe), janu sirsasana (head to knee forward bend) and paschimottanasana (intense west stretch).\n\nTo stretch your adductors, do virabhadrasana II (warrior II), prasarita padottanasana (intense spread leg stretch), badha konasana (bound angle), and upavista konasana (open angle).\n\nTo open your hips do eka pada rajakopatasana (pigeon pose).  This is actually a half-split.  Do the beginner's variation as pictured here http://www.yogajournal.com/newtoyoga/1808_1.cfm\n\nWith time, patience and practice, perhaps you will be able to to do hanumasana (monkey pose, more commonly known as the split).  \n\nOther poses mentioned above can be found in yoga books or try this link\nhttp://www.yogajournal.com/poses/index.cfm?ctsrc=tnav\n\nPlease consult a doctor before starting any new fitness regimen or exercise.  Make sure you do yoga under the supervision of a qualified yoga instructor.
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crunches, side crunches where you're targeting your obliques (do regular crunch with both your legs turned to one side then the other), and when i started kick boxing i was introduced to an exercise that really helped my love handles.\nlie on your side with your upper body on the floor, not propped up. put your top hand behind you head and lift your top leg and bring your upper body up to meet it.\nrepeat reps and switch sides.\n\ni hope i described this well..be sure to try to modify it to work your sides in case what i described isn't hitting the mark....if you keep up with it..i promise you will feel the muscles tightening!
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This is such a fun question.  I don't want to hold you back but as you advance toward your goal, please remember my experience and  advice.   I completely severed the bone in my left arm known as the humorous, it was quite horrifying, while attempting my very first dunk.    Take what you are trying to do serious and advance incrementally while avoiding injury.   \n\nThe largest and most powerful muscles are in your hips and buttocks.  Do exercises that strengthen and tone these areas such as lunges and thrust ups (put your jumping leg up on a chair then from a still position use your hip muscle to thrust yourself straight up).  Jump rope, especially the weighted ones.  \n\nThe next point will seem not important but I think otherwise.  In later years even though my jumping level decreased, I could dunk easier.   I did not grow and get a bigger hand, just much stronger grip.  Use one of those grip squeeze exercises tools and practice lifting (palming) a basketball with one hand.\n  \nAnd one last thing, watch Jordan (on old highlight tapes) on his dunk where he takes off from the free throw line during the NBA slam dunk contest.  Note how when he lands he keeps his shoulders square with the direction he is soaring and absorbs the landing shock with his knees in the proper position.  Short guys like us can sometimes get rotated when we are way up there and it makes for harsh landings; I also blew my leg out having not realized this last point.  I tore multiple ligaments and now I can't soar to score.\n\nStay healthy!
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There are lots! Crunches, lunges, jumping jacks...it all depends on what you're trying to accomplish by working out.\n\nIf you're trying to lose weight, I'd suggest doing more cardio.\nIf you're trying to strengthen a certain part of your body, then some of the activities I suggested could work.\n\nThere are A LOT of web resources about this.\n\nTry these:\nhttp://www.hphdhelp.org/exercise.htm\n \nhttp://www.truestarhealth.com/members/cm_archives11ML3P1A24.html
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http://www.jumpusa.com/p14.htm
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The muscles in my lower body and torso
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Cardio.. and targeting the stomach through different forms of muscle workouts in that area. \n\n'Piloties' I hear is good for target areas. Many will say you can not target certain areas, but I think there are ways.. Cardio will be good. you may need to loose some overall body fat. \n\nWalking and Jogging rocks.. If you can't stand jogging, start walking and go from there. Then go to faster walking then go through spurts where you jog, then walk then go back and forth.
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Jumping jacks, jumping rope, sweating for a couple of hours everyday and put more fiber in your diet. After you get a good sweat going, don't turn around and eat a damned donut, have a piece of fruit, or start making your own natural fruit juices.
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1- raise leg up and toward body.\n2- aim at target.\n3- release with force
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legs and forearms and lats, but really to strike is to control time and space.. to strike the target like a whip
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try doing donkey kicks. that's when you have the gymnast place her hands on the vault and bounces on the springboard kicking her legs as high as she can. this allows her to focus on kicking over while making it easier to focus on straight legs.
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We used to do this in Karate.  We didn't jump from a chair, we just would jump from person to person, though.  It takes a lot of practice to get enough control over one's stomach muscles, but it is possible.  It takes a lot of concentration to keep them strong enough for the impact.  During our testing, we'd have to do this one kata where we'd be wailed upon by a black belt.  They'd hit our legs, arms, and stomach.  The way we practiced was with many situps, and then punching each other in the stomach.
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You can target certain body parts, but only to firm up and tighten the body part. By doing this you will not have jelly like body parts. They will diminish the fat and floppy look. That doesn't mean you burned body fat just in that area. You just added some muscle and tightened it up.\nYou need to exercise at least 3 times a week for at least 30 min. To burn fat all over your body.  (eat sensibly & cut sugars)\n\nP.S I just noticed your picture....Chow-meow!!  \nYou look fine.
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The major upper body muscles involved in swinging a tennis racquet are the pectoralis major, latissimus dorsi, and deltoids of the torso, and the biceps and triceps of the arms. While the basic strength training program addresses these muscles individually, it may be advantageous to work some of the groups together. This is best accomplished by doing pushing and pulling exercises such as bench presses, seated rows, overhead presses, and pulldowns.\n\nThe bench press is a popular pushing exercise that strengthens the pectoralis major and triceps muscle at the same time. Conversely, the seated row is an effective pulling exercise that works the opposing latissimus dorsi and biceps muscles simultaneously.\n\nOne of the best means for training the shoulder and triceps muscles together is the overhead press. The counterpart to this exercise is the pulldown that involves both the latissimus dorsi and biceps muscles.\n\nReplace the chest cross, pullover, lateral raise, biceps curl and triceps extension exercises with the bench press, seated row, overhead press, and pulldown exercises. These provide a more comprehensive upper body workout that may have more practical benefit in terms of power production.
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muscle that pumps blood