Posterior Chain Energy

Gear: weighted objects, elevated floor, hamstring curl choices (ball, sliders – i.e. socks, washcloths, cardboard field tops,frisbees)
Format: comply with the recommended reps or time for every transfer and repeat every circuit for 3 rounds. Choices for rep ranges must you want to construct into heavier resistance.

Circuit 1

Sumo Squat to Excessive Pull Row (10-15)

• With weighted objects in each arms, palms going through your physique, start by standing with toes wider than hip width aside, core braced, and shoulders again and down (as in the event that they have been in opposition to a wall).
• Push your hips again and down right into a sumo squat, knees monitoring according to your toes, conserving your chest upright, the weighted objects hanging in-between your legs and near your shins.
• As you drive via your toes and squeeze your glutes to come back again to standing, draw your weighted objects up and again evenly for a excessive pull row, main along with your elbows. Discover the muscular tissues working between your shoulder blades.
• Repeat sequence to your max reps.

Bulgarian Cut up Squats (8-12/6-10)

• Start standing, a weighted object in every hand and with one foot on an elevated floor behind you, your toes hip width distance and spaced far aside sufficient for a very good lunge place.
  • Discover your optimum foot positioning by sitting on the sting of your elevated floor in order that the sting is true the place your butt meets your thigh. Prolong the working leg out straight; wherever your foot lands is the place it is best to place it throughout this cut up squat. Really feel welcome to regulate as wanted.
  • Ideally, your elevated floor might be no increased than your knee.
• Decrease your self down with management by bending your knees to the depth that’s snug for you (make sure that your entrance knee isn’t buckling in or bowing out).
• As you rise up, drive via your entrance heel and are available to standing.
• Repeat to your max reps and swap sides.
• MOD: Carry out this train physique weight solely, inserting your hand in opposition to a wall for steadiness, or performing common ahead lunges in your mat.
• MOD 2: Carry out a static lunge, conserving your toes in a lunge place as you drive up and are available again down to your max reps.

Calf Raises (8-12/6-10)

• Stand along with your toes hip distance aside, core braced, chest up, shoulders again and down (as in the event that they have been in opposition to a wall), and a weighted object in every hand at your shoulders or by your sides.
• Raise your heels off of the mat as excessive as you’ll be able to with management, then slowly decrease them again down (be aware that you simply’re not shifting your weight facet to facet or leaning ahead).
• Repeat to your max reps.
• MOD: Take away the weighted objects and full this transfer with body weight solely.

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Circuit 2

Single Leg Hamstring Curls (AMRAP*)

• Lie in your again along with your toes on a ball or in TRX straps
• Brace your core and lift your hips off the bottom to kind a straight line along with your shoulders, again, glutes, knees, and ankles. Keep away from straining your neck through the use of your arms on the mat to assist you.
• Maintain for a short pause. Raise your left leg, bend your proper knee and contract your hamstrings to drag the ball/straps as near you as doable, whereas conserving shoulders, again, glutes, and knees in a straight line.
• With management, straighten your proper leg to the beginning raised hips place, conserving your left leg lifted..
• Repeat to your max reps then swap sides.

Deadlifts (8-12/6-10)

• Start standing along with your toes hip distance aside, core braced, shoulders again and down, and weighted objects in hand.
• Push your hips down and again, hinging ahead and bending your knees. Preserve the weights near your shins (at mid-shin) and elevate your chest, straightening your again and dropping your hips down.
• Drive via your whole foot as you straighten your legs (think about you’re pushing the earth away from you), conserving your weighted objects transferring in a straight line near your physique.
• Really feel your glutes and hamstrings working via this elevate, and don’t lean again on the prime.
• MOD: Take away the weighted objects and do that transfer with simply your body weight.

BONUS: Elevated Bridge Lifts (1:00)

• Start in your again along with your knees bent and your heels on an train ball or elevated floor.
• Retaining your core braced, press via your heels to elevate your hips up and squeeze your glutes.
• Decrease your hips again down towards the ground with management and repeat for allotted time..
• MOD: Carry out bridge lifts along with your toes on the ground.

*AMRAP: As many reps as doable