Start with a heavy DB or KB in hand, wide stance, and toes pointed slightly diagonal. Hinge your hips back as you drop your chest, lower the weight towards the floor into an RDL. After you stand up fully, bend your knees, keep your chest up & drop straight into a sumo squat. That is 1 rep!
Beginner: 10-20lbs
Intermediate: 25-45lbs
Advanced: 50-90+lbs
*Modification: you can split the exercises up separately and superset them!
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HIP THRUST (4X10)
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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BACK SQUATS (4X10)
Engage your core, sit back into a chair, push through your heels to stand back up!
Weight Recommendations:
Beginner: Try just the bar first or dumbbells Intermediate: 15-35lb plates on each side of the barbell Advanced: 45-90+lb plates on each side of the barbell
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GLUTE FOCUSED HYPEREXTENSIONS (4X10)
Start with your hips pressed on the pads & with weights hanging in front of you or held to your chest. Internally rotate your shoulders to hunch/round your upper back. As you lower, you should feel a stretch in the hamstrings, and as you come back up, think about squeezing your glutes to lift you...
