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  1. Inhale deeply just prior to beginning a lift.
  2. Never lift with your back muscles from the floor.
  3. Use your thigh muscles to lift the weight from the floor (bending at the knee).
  4. Light weight — more repetitions develop endurance.
  5. Use explosive type of movements with moderate weight to develop power.
  6. Exercise different muscle every time.
  7. Exercise on sets; a set may include a few repetitions. Have 2 minutes rest between sets.
  8. The progress is in either adding the load or increasing the repetition in each set.

A few exercise names are given for general development of the body.

  1. Military Press
  2. Two Arm Curl
  3. Half Squat
  4. Rowing Exercise
  5. Rowing Exercise to the Sideward