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Lower Lift & Kick is another YouTube workout from Kelly Coffey-Meyer. I was really excited to try this workout when I saw it. It looked like a ton of fun. Lower body strength training that contains strength exercises that I enjoy and lots of kicking--and I love kickboxing. It was not as enjoyable as I … Continue reading CoffeyFit Raw: Lower Lift & Kick
I love cardio + strength workouts. I also love low impact cardio so this looked like a winner. And I was right! I found it pretty intense. It is actually a shorter version of #381 "Plyo" Legs Low Impact--but only by 10 minutes. Since this workout is so short, I combined it with one of … Continue reading Cathe Live: 408 Low Impact Cardio & Legs Express
The word plyo is in quotation marks because this is a low impact workout. So no real plyometrics. But it is a cardio + strength workout that will fry your lower body. Though you aren't doing any real jumping (there is lots of "hopping"), every move, both strength and cardio, will work your legs. Since … Continue reading Cathe Live: #381 “Plyo” Legs Low Impact
This workout is part of Cathe Friedrich’s Lift, Move & Restore program. This program contains workouts for people who are fit but aging and want to take things down a notch but also want to age well. She notes that these workouts can also be used as recovery workouts for advanced exercisers. Functional Lower Body contains the main … Continue reading Lift, Move & Restore: Functional Lower Body
Glute Strength Workout at Home is Day 49 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. This was an enjoyable lower body workout with lots of variety. You will use the glute/booty resistance band for nearly every exercise in this workout. And there is no reason you can't use it for all of the exercises even … Continue reading Day 49: Glute Strength Workout at Home (Band & Dumbbell Workout) / HR12WEEK 4.0
Leg Strength is Day 53 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. This is another very enjoyable lower body strength workout. Heather sequences the exercises so you can lift heavy for most of them without getting burned out. And I really enjoyed the warm up. It was made up of a lot of dynamic stretches. … Continue reading Day 53: Leg Strength / HR12WEEK 4.0
20 Min Rebounder Lower Body HIIT is a short but intense cardio + strength workout from Michelle Briehler. The focus is the lower body. I agree that it is HIIT level (High Intensity Interval Training) but the strength intervals were more intense than the cardio intervals. The strength is where my heart rate really spiked. … Continue reading 𝟐𝟎 𝐌𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐇𝐈𝐈𝐓 ⟫ 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐫 ⟫ 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐭
Powerful Leg Strength Workout is Day 43 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. This was another intense metabolic workout. Just shaving 5 seconds off the recovery time makes a surprisingly big difference! Heather works your lower body very well with a combination of weighted exercises, bodyweight exercises and plyometric exercises. According to my Apple … Continue reading Day 43: Powerful LEG STRENGTH Workout / HR12WEEK 4.0
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Wow! This was an intense kettlebell workout. Of course, it all depends on your kettlebell weights. I have kettlebells in increments all the way to 50 pounds. I normally use a 75 pound dumbbell for sumo squats … Continue reading CGX: Kettlebell Lower Body
Lower Body Strength is Day 36 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. Another enjoyable lower body strength workout. Heather works your lower body thoroughly with compound exercises that work multiple muscle groups. For instance, a lunge alternated with a squat or a single leg deadlift. Additionally, she warms you up very nicely with some … Continue reading Day 36: Lower Body Strength / HR12WEEK 4.0