To greater increase your range of motion, do your crunches with a rolled up towel or small exercise ball tucked under your lower back. You will work harder to keep your balance, which helps your body stretch. The chance you will get injured from this method is minimal, as well.

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Exercising with a weight belt on is not as helpful as commonly thought. While you may think that you are increasing your strength by wearing a weight belt, you are actually doing just the opposite. It's been found that consistently wearing weight belts while exercising actually weakens your lower-back and abdominal muscles.

Before you start lifting, you should press one of your fingers into the bench to see if you feel any wood. You should find another bench to work with if you feel any. Hard benches have been known to cause misalignment of your spine and to cause some damage to the nerves in the arms.

Do leg extensions to get your quads in shape. Leg extensions are a pretty easy exercise to do and most gyms should have one or two leg extension machines. While sitting down, all you have to do is extend your legs to get the exercise's benefits.

As you get older, you need to devote more time to stretch during warm-ups and cool-downs. Your body's muscles become more stiff as you age. This is irritating but unavoidable. Fortunately you can take steps to counteract the effect by holding each of your stretch positions a little longer, as you get older.