Thurmond was raised as a sharecropper's son in Clarke County, Georgia. He graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religion from Paine College and later earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolinaâs School of Law.
A weight bench helps you do butterfly exercises. If you want to build muscles in your upper body, butterfly exercises can help. Designed specifically to target muscles in your chest, flyes engage several muscle groups in your arms and shoulders as well, getting you ready for tank-top weather. There are several ways to do fly exercises, including using special machines at the gym or using dumbbells on a bench or stability ball.
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.