Engage your core, hinge at the hips as you lower the bar, keeping your spine neutral . then drive your hips forward and use your hamstrings to power back to standing position.
Weight Recommendations:
Beginner: Try just the bar first or dumbbells
Intermediate: 10-35lb plates on each side of the barbell
Advanced: 35-66+lb plates on each side of the barbell
*Modification: use dumbbells instead
Up Next in WEEK 17 DAY 2: LOWER BODY
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HIP THRUST (4x12)
Use a barbell. Support upper back on a bench/ thrust machine, press through your heels to drive your glutes up to a tabletop position, then slowly return back down.
Weight Recommendations:
Beginner: Try just the bar first or dumbbells
Intermediate: 15-35lb plates on each side of the barbell
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DUMBBELL REVERSE LUNGE (4x8)
Stand with dumbbells at your sides. Step one leg back into a reverse lunge, lowering until both knees are bent at 90 degrees. Return to standing, then alternate legs.
Weight Recommendations
Beginner: 5-10lb
Intermediate: 15-30lb
Advanced: 35-45lb -
GOBLET SQUAT (4x12)
Start with your heels slightly elevated on a 1-2" platform, hold a dumbell in front of your chest, and with a narrow stance squat up and down, making sure to keep you chest up, pushing the weight through your quads!
Weight Recommendations:
Beginner: 5-10lbs
Intermediate: 12-30lbs
Advanced: 35-6...
