What muscle work in jumping jacks?

Answer 1

Jumping jacks involve changing the position of the feet alternately with each jump in addition to moving the arms from the sides over the head bringing hands together. One could conclude that a jumping jack might involve every muscle in the body and to some degree it does. The longest muscles in the body are the pair of ileo soaz muscles which extend on either side of the spine from the shoulders through the inner legs to the ankles. Surely those would be involved in a jumping jack along with every muscle from the gastrocnemius (the calf muscle) to the pair of biceps femoris muscles and the quadraceps. The latissimus dorsi will surely be involved in supporting the torso and lending to the motion of the arms along with the biceps and triceps of the arms. Needless to say - in a jump the muscles of the solar plexis the sartorius muscles additionally connecting the legs and the torso will be involved - and other muscles supporting the upper back and shouders such as the trapezius muscles and the deltoid muscles. The muscles of the neck - the sternocleido-mastoid muscles of course are involved to keep one's head on straight. To do a jumping jack one must of course have well developed greater gluteals. If all the muscles are engaged in a jumping jack from head to toe or fingers to toes, one could contrast the degree of muscular involvement with the example of the sooriya namaskar The sun salutation in yoga which is a series of twelve postures designed to move all the muscles in the body through a significant range of motion. Yogis will tell you that the sun salutation indeed involves all the muscles including facial muscles and the ones which conclude the alimentary canal. A sun salutation may be done slowly and meditatively taking time at the extreme of each position to use the breathing to hold the muscles and briefly lock them as in the "stomach lift" done in a forward bend. In Yoga breathing is part of the motion. In a jumping jack repetition of jumps is intended to be an aerobic exercise stimulating breathing but the breathing is not done in a pattern or to conform with the motion. The intent of aerobic exercises like jumping jacks is largely to exercise the heart. While the heart is not intended to race in a sun salutation in yoga - surely it is an important muscle in either a calisthenic or a more meditative form of exercise. Rather than merely being a jump with the hands coming together over the head and then back down to the sides as with a calisthenic like a jumping jack, the yoga exercise of the sun salutation begins similarly with the hands over the head but is followed with a forward bend bringing the fingers to the toes with legs straight. It involves moving into a pair of lunges stretching the groin considerably more than a jumping jack which neglects the forward to back dynamic. A sun salutation works many of the forward and backward dynamics of the body bending the thorax to the lower spine both forwards backwards while in lunges, flattening out and bending again once on the floor to move the body virtually through all its parameters of motion. The twelve sequential positions are done in a logical sequence with a symmetry of motion to leave no part of the body unexercised. In contrast to the jumping jack, the sun salutation not only uses every muscle but does so to a greater degree and with a consciousness of the complementary actions of the muscles and the limbs they control. While the jumping jack may be one of a number of exercises to warm up and condition the body and may in fact use all the muscles, it should be done as part of a routine, not by itself.

Answer 2

What muscles are in use when your doing a jumping jacks ... Jumping jacks are a full body exercise meaning all of your muscles will be used.

Answer 3

2. Sculpt Your Body With Jumping Jacks

Besides being a great warm-up exercise, jumping jacks are an excellent form of aerobic exercise and they can help to condition and tone your body. Work out for 20 minutes or more a day with jumping jacks and find you have more stamina, endurance and are in better overall shape. You can also get your heart rate up significantly and expand your lungs while doing jumping jacks. Completing 20 minutes of jumping jacks produces similar results as jogging for 20 minutes. Keep in mind that regular and vigorous daily aerobic exercise of just about any kind will keep you healthy and help your body to fight disease.

Answer 4

Medial deltoid and traps bring your arms up, lats pull your arms down. Obliques adduct your legs, groin abducts them.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

triceps