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The Milk Jug Triceps Kickback exercises the back of the upper arm -- the muscle known as the triceps brachii. This exercise is great for teaching proper body alignment and may also transfer to activities like a chest pass in basketball.

The Milk Jug Biceps Curl emphasizes the arm muscles. These muscles are used in every day activities like lifting and lowering your watering can as you water the flowers as well as hammering nails.

Turtle planks emphasize the core in a static position. This exercise helps to maintain a solid, upright posture and produce well-developed muscles in our abdominals and low back to help protect the spine.

Work those abs!

Leg raises are a great exercise to emphasize the glute (bum) muscles.

The abdominal muscles are extremely important for the health of your back, maintaining good posture and breathing. They are also very important for reaching forward at the trunk as well as bending your trunk to the side.

The hamstrings are located in the back of the thigh. These muscles act at the hip joint to move your leg behind you and also at the knee joint to bring your lower leg closer to the back of your thigh. These muscles are especially important for activities like walking or slowing down the leg after kicking a football.

This exercise is one of very few that works the tibialis anterior (the muscle on the front of the lower leg). This movement of bringing the top of the foot closer to the shin is essential for foot clearance when walking.

The prone cobra emphasizes the deltoid (the back of the shoulder) as well as several smaller muscles acting at the shoulder joint and on the shoulder blades for stabilization. This exercise teaches us how to stabilize our shoulder blades and to hold them in a good postural position. It also teaches us to keep the head up and neck long, two cues important to exercise and posture.

Towel rows are a great exercise for working the large muscles of your back and arm. This is a very functional exercise that will aid in pulling open heavy cabinet drawers, pulling up your slacks and obviously pulling towels out of the washer and dryer.