This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page.
This is a fun little lower body finisher workout. It isn’t as big of a burner as some of her others but I think that is because it is all standing exercises. But it is a great finisher if the workout(s) you just completed beforehand already fried your legs. For me this morning, this worked my lower body in a different way than the workouts I had just finished. This morning I started with CGX: 10 Min Leg Circuit then did CGX: 25 Min All Lunges and finished with this. I also had a deep lower body stretch already queued up on YouTube so as soon as this workout ended, I stretched my lower body out thoroughly.
The exercises are performed for 45 with no rest/recoveries. There is a timer in the upper lefthand side of the screen counting down your intervals. When there is 10 seconds left of an exercise, a video of Caroline previewing the next exercise appears in the upper righthand corner of the screen. There is also a little bar at the bottom of the screen that counts down the entire workout time as a percentage.
Banded Bodyweight Glutes is 9:34 minutes (this time does not include the optional 8:58 minute warm up) with a one minute stretch. Equipment: booty band/resistance loop.
- Lateral band walk (place band around thighs/above knees, side walk several steps in one direction then reverse direction)
- Lateral step (one side) (step one foot in and out to side)
- Repeat #2 on other leg
- Diagonal rear step (step one foot in and out on a diagonal–behind/to side)
- Repeat #4 on other leg
- Rear step (step one foot out behind you then back in)
- Repeat #6 on other leg
- Slow squats (legs are far enough apart so that there is constant tension on the band)
- Repeat #8 at a normal pace
- Repeat #1
