IRON Series 30 Min Leg Workout – Circuits & Step Ups | 26

30 Min Leg Workout –  Circuits & Step Ups is Day 26 in Caroline Girvan‘s Iron Series. Another excellent and tough lower body strength workout. This workout is made up of one circuit of 7 exercises. The circuit is repeated 3 times. Each time it is repeated, Caroline varies the order of the exercises just a little. The last circuit is definitely the toughest. Not just because you’ve already run through all of the exercises twice and you are fatigued (though that is definitely a contributing factor!), but because of change to the structure. After doing stationary lunges on one leg, you do step ups on the same leg. So for that circuit you get a little extra burn. The finisher definitely finished me (and Caroline it seemed!) off. 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.

***11/10/22 I used this workout in a rotation I created so there are dated weight updates below. The weights dated 11/10/22 are for Caroline Girvan Strength & Muscle Building Rotation. I only added a date and weight when I lifted heavier than the last time I did the workout.***

30 Min Leg Workout –  Circuits & Step Ups is 40:26 minutes; 1:27 minute intro, no warm up and 3:30 minute stretch. Equipment: dumbbells, a high step and a fitness mat. Caroline is using one 30kg/66.1 pound dumbbell and 15kg/33.1 pound dumbbells. The weights listed below are what I used.

1. Sumo deadlift squat (pause at bottom) (stand with legs wide and toes turned out, torso is hinged deadlift style as you sumo squat) (one 55# DB) (11/10/22 one 60# DB)
2. Lunge hold (rise on 10 second beep) (stationary/static lunges, lower to bottom of lunge and hold for 10 seconds, beep alerts you when to rise) (20# DBs) (11/10/22 25# DBs)
3. Repeat #2 on other side of body
4. Alternating reverse lunges (20# DBs)
5. RDL (Romanian deadlift) (37.5# DBs) (11/10/22 40# DBs)
6. Step up (place on foot on high step/box, raise other foot off floor to tap top of box then step it back to floor, working leg remains on box/step the entire interval)
7. Repeat #6 on other leg
8. Repeat #1-4
9. Repeat #6 & 7
10. Repeat #5
11. Repeat #1 & 2
12. Repeat #6
13. Repeat #3
14. Repeat #7
15. Repeat #4
16. Repeat #5

Finisher: (2:30 minutes, each exercise is done for 30 seconds with no rest/recoveries)

1. Sumo deadlift hold (bodyweight, stand with legs wide and toes turned out, torso is hinged deadlift style, lower into sumo squat and hold entire interval)
2. Full range sumo deadlift w/ DB (one 55# DB) (11/10/22 one 60# DB)
3. Repeat #1 & 2
4. Body weight half reps (lower to bottom of sumo deadlift squat but only raise halfway)

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