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Standing wood chop
Hold a medicine ball up by one shoulder and, bracing your trunk, chop it diagonally down toward the opposite hip. Control the return and keep your hips mostly still.
CoreMedicine ballDifficulty 2 of 3
How to do it
Hold a medicine ball up by one shoulder and, bracing your trunk, chop it diagonally down toward the opposite hip. Control the return and keep your hips mostly still.
Muscles worked
- coreprimary
- obliques
- shoulders
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No medicine ball? Swap it out
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