Squats
Lynx Personal Training is now coming into your loungeroom to give you more help keeping fit through winter.
Set yourself a challenge of doing these quick workouts when plan A doesn't happen for whatever reason, or combine all of the upcoming mini workouts and use them as your regular workout.
Today is Squats day!
No mattter where you are you only need 10 minutes spare to make a difference.
Squats use lots of large muscle making your efforts more worthwhile.
Warm up
1/2 squats - 10 reps*5 sets, with 10 seconds rest between sets.
Feels: Easy, body becomes a little warmer.
Main Set:
Squats - exactly how many will vary hugely between people, so:
Beginners: Do it till it burns a little, then rest for 30 seconds, repeat 2 or 3 times.
Advanced: You know how good the burn feels, challenge yourself, up to 5 repeats of burn!
Walk/warmdown
Stretches
Variations
To increase effectiveness in suggested order of difficulty:
- Don't stand up completely in between each squat.
- Same speed up/ same speed down: 3 seconds each way.
- Take squat down to 90 degrees and hold.
- Little pulses: down! halfway up! down! half way up! repeat.
- Transfer majority of bodyweight onto one leg.
- Dumbells squats.
Work on the body weight variations, most of us don't actually need to use weights to get a good thigh burn!
Enjoy.
