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It’s Friday! Hopefully, the weather is beautiful where ever you are. For those June babies born on June 1st, I wish you a happy birthday! For those born on June 2nd or 3rd, I wish you an early happy birthday! Party like a rock star (without the excessive alcohol, drugs and other unsafe behaviors)!

We have to start the weekend proper by continuing with our Friday workout. Today, I have another winner for you, compliments of Arnold Schwarzenneger. We are going to work the deltoids with an exercise called the arnold press. This exercise take the shoulder press to the next level of intensity by increasing the range of motion and by forcing you to expend more effort controlling the weight as you rotate your wrists. You’ll need a chair and some dumbells. If you don’t have dumbells, find a convenient substitute (canned goods, gallon of water, melons, etc.). Sit in you chair with your back straight. Pick up your weights and bend your arms infront of you so that your palms are facing toward you and you are looking at weights (your forearms should be perpindicular/orthogonal to the floor). Life the weights upward and begin to rotate your wrists as you move the weight upward; rotate your wrists 180 degrees. Stop short of locking the elbows out; keep them bent. As you bring the weights back down, rotate your wrists 180 degrees again as you return your arms to the starting position. I’ll thank Arnold on your behalf; DO SOMETHIN’!

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