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 3 DAY 5: HAMSTRINGS & SHOULDERS
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SHOULDER PRESS (4x8)
Start seated with dumbbells in your hands, bend the elbows at 90 degrees, engage your core & push the dumbbells up meeting at the top, then slowly lower back to starting position.
Beginner: 5-7lb dumbbells Intermediate: 10-15lb dumbbells Advanced: 20-35+lb dumbbells
*Modification: You can also...
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WALKING LUNGE (3x10) PER SIDE
Hold a dumbbell in each hand at your sides, standing tall with feet hip-width apart. Step forward and lower until both knees are bent about 90 degrees, then drive through your front heel to bring your back foot forward into the next step! Keep your core engaged, chest up, and your front knee trac...
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LATERAL RAISE (3x12)
Start standing tall, cor engaged. Lift the dumbbells up into an ”L”shape: 1 arm in a front raise while the other arm goes into a lateral raise, then return to the starting position, and repeat on the opposite side- that is 1 rep. Make sure not to swing the weights, but actually lift!
Weight Reco...
