Exercise Advice: Grab a pair of dumbbells and hold them at your sides, palms facing each other. Stagger your stance, with your front foot 2-4 feet in front of your rear foot. Stay on the toes of your rear foot. Lower your hips until your front thigh is at least parallel to the floor. Push through your front heel, and
Exercise Instructions: The sumo deadlift is performed in the following way. Begin with the barbell placed on the floor, not too far out from your shins. Assume a “sumo stance”, with your feet wide apart and use an overhand grip (meaning your palms are facing away from you), and place your hands in the middle of the barbell. Your hands
Exercise Advice: Position yourself on a seated calf machine. Place your toes on the platform and push your toes down so that your heels become raised so that you are on your tip toes. Be sure to really flex your calves at the top of this movement for a one-count. Return to the start position and repeat until failure. The
Exercise Advice: This exercise is also known as hamstring curls. Lie on your stomach on the hamstring machine. If you are not sure how to position yourself, simply ask a trainer at your gym to assist you. Begin by curling the weight upward so as to touch your heels to your butt. Return to the start position in a slow
Overview: The walking lunge is a very effective bodyweight exercise used in CrossFit to strengthen and tone your lower body. This is an exercise that can be performed as part of your warm-up process before moving onto more advanced movements, or you can make it part of your leg training routine. A walking lunge, as the name suggests, is a basic lunge
Exercise Advice: This exercise is done in a standing position with your feet about shoulder width apart. Grab a dumbbell in each hand and let each hang by your sides. Begin by pushing your toes down so that your heels become raised so that you are on your tip toes. Be sure to really flex your calves at the top
Exercise Advice: Sit on a flat bench and while holding a barbell securely, position it above your head with your arms extended. Make sure to keep a little bend in your arms while extending your arms. Slowly lower your arms down behind your head while keeping your elbows in and all the tension on your triceps. Slowly raise the barbell
Exercise Advice: This is very similar to the bent arm barbell pullovers, except that you will be using a dumbbell instead of a barbell. Lie flat on your back on a flat bench. Begin by holding the dumbbell above your chest with your elbows slightly bent. Slowly lower the dumbbell back so as to stretch your arms (and the dumbbell)
Muscles Targeted: Exercise ball abdominal crunches primarily target the rectus abdominis. This muscle group is responsible for flexing the lumbar spine. Also targeted are the transverse abdominis, which are used to compress the rib cage and are important for stabilisation of your core. If you twist when performing the crunch then you are also engaging the oblique muscles. These muscles
Long considered the ultimate in free weight exercises, the barbell squat is a true test of motivation and dedication to an exercise routine. No other exercise pushes you to your limit or brings you the results you want quicker than barbell squats. Second only to the deadlift in total body muscle activation, the squat does not involve the limiting factor
