IRON Series 30 Min Quad Workout – Dumbbell Leg Day | 6

30 Min Quad Workout – Dumbbell Leg Day is Day 6 in Caroline Girvan‘s Iron Series. Wow–this workout was intense! Caroline fried my quads! This workout hits your entire lower body but as the title indicates, your quads get the bulk of the work. Mine were trembling by the end. All of the exercises in this workout are done interval style: 60 seconds of work followed by 30 seconds of rest. There is a timer in the upper left hand side of the screen counting down your intervals and recoveries. During the recovery Caroline previews the next exercise. There is also a little bar at the bottom of the screen that counts down the entire workout time as a percentage. When this workout was done, I did not know if I could manage the finisher I had planned but since it only used a booty band, I decided to just do it. I did one of Heather Robertson‘s Daily 10 workouts:  Day 13 Booty Band Workout. Between the two workouts my lower body was done!

30 Min Quad Workout – Dumbbell Leg Day is 36:27 minutes; 2:40 minute intro, no warm up and 3 minute stretch. Equipment: dumbbells, a chair, a yoga block and fitness mat. Caroline is using 20kg/44pounds and 12.5kg/27.6 pound dumbbells. The weights listed below are what I used.

1. Closer stance lunge (static/stationary lunge with feet closer than hip width) (20# DBs)
2. Repeat #1 on other side of body
3. Repeat #1 & 2
4. Heel elevated squats (heels are elevated on yoga block, hold DBs at shoulders) (25# DBs)
5. Repeat #4
6. Heel elevated squat slow eccentric (same position as #4 but lower slowly into squat and rise at normal speed) (25# DBs)
7. Repeat #6
8. Bulgarian lunge (stationary lunge with back foot elevated on chair behind you) (20# DBs)
9. Repeat #8 on other side of body
10. Slow lower (same position as #8 but lower slowly and raise at normal speed, hold one DB at shoulder of front/working leg) (one 25# DB)
11. Repeat #10 on other side of body
12. Close stance Bulgarian lunge (same position as #8, but front leg is closer to chair, hold one DB at shoulder of front/working leg) (one 25# DB)
13. Repeat #12 on other side of body
14. Body weight half reps (same position as #12, no DB, lower to bottom of lunge but only raise halfway)
15. Repeat #14 on other side of body
16. Goblet squat (one 45# DB)
17. Repeat #16

Finisher: (2:30 minutes, no rest/recoveries)

1. Body weight heel elevated squats for 60 seconds (heels are elevated on yoga block)
2. Hold at bottom of squat for 30 seconds
3. Repeat #1

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