Want to give your child a head start on lifelong fitness? Consider children's sports and other kid-friendly physical activities. With your encouragement and support, chances are a few sports will spark your child's interest.
The lower-body muscles are primarily targeted on elliptical trainer, including the: 1  Buttocks (gluteus maximus) For greater the butt-firming effect, increase the incline. 2  Front of thighs (quadriceps) The elliptical trainer really works the quadriceps. 3  However, thankfully it isnât as noticeable as on the stationary bike.
Trunk Muscles. Believe it or not, when I was in college, I did hundreds of sits-ups every day to get a 'six-pack' of abdominal muscles. These sits-ups, along with other similar exercises, work our oblique (that is, not straight) as well as our rectus (or straight) muscles located in the body wall of our trunk. These oblique and rectus muscles are axial muscles, as they're located in the middle, or the axis, of the body.