Lean your chest forward, engage your core, and kick your leg backwards with the resistance of the cable. Make sure you are not arching your back, move slow & controlled & drive the weight through your glute on the kick and the return motion
Weight Recommendations:
Beginner: 10-20lbs
Intermediate: 25-50lbs
Advanced: 55-80+lbs
*Modification: do banded donkey kicks on all fours, on the floor!
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KB SUMO RDL TO SUMO SQUAT 4X8
Start with a heavy 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: 1...
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SUPERSET 4X (10 RIGHT + LEFT SIDE BUL...
Start standing with one foot on the bench behind you, lower into a lunge, let the weights come down close to your shin/ankle & slowly stand back up. Lean your chest slightly forward throughout the movement & make sure you're not arching your back!
Beginner: bodyweight -7lb dumbbells
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BARBELL HIP THRUSTS 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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