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 18 DAY 1: FULL BODY
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BICEP CURL (4x12)
Hold the dumbbells by your side, as you lift, slightly rotate your palm to face forward. Keep the elbow close to your body as you curl the dumbbell up toward your shoulders. Squeeze your biceps at the top of the movement then slowly return to starting position.
Weight Recommendations:
Beginner...
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THRUSTERS (4x10)
Start standing with a fixed bar or dumbbells in hands by your shoulders. Sit into a squat, as you stand up, push the weight above your head & as you return back to a squat lower the weight back to your shoulders.
Weight Recommendations:
Beginner: 5-10lbs
Intermediate: 12-30lbs
Advanced: 35-65+... -
SEATED ROW (4x12)
Sit up tall with a flat back / engaged core & and pull your elbows back toward your hipbones pinching your shoulder blades together & squeezing your back muscles the whole time. Slowly return to starting position.
Weight Recommendations:
Beginner: 10-15lbs plates on each side
Intermediate: 20-...