Beef Stroganoff When it came to food, my mum thought I was a picky eater. Turns out she was mistaking me for her other son – who wouldn’t eat anything that had or been near tomato. Eventually it dawned on her I was happy to try new foods and her beef stroganoff was the meal…
A slightly evolved version of your standard tricep kick backs – both arms at the same time. If you can keep your body positioning set and controlled enough – doing both at the same time is an effective way to manage your time and compare the sensation from both arms.
A bit of an odd exercise but it’s weirdness is balanced out by how effective and useful it is! Just don’t actually hit yourself in the face!
The Sumo Squat is a fresh take on the traditional squat. The Sumo tweaks the form slightly to engage and target the glutes and adductors (Inner Thighs) more specifically.
This is a great exercise that targets abdominal muscles, especially lower abdominals, and also adductors.
This exercise can be done anywhere, which makes it a no excuse exercise if you will.
Got a TRX? Well Then – you have a great and challenging exercise to have a go at! This is a fantastic way of training your back with a variety of different ways to spice it up!
01 January, 2019 Well would you look at that! I’m making a geeky reference by using the old term “Press Start!” I’m so sneaky – being all video game orientated and fitness motivatory! So – It’s a new year and odds on if you are reading this – you are probably not happy about how…
Want an effective way to get that core working? Well this is it! The great thing about bosu leg lifts is that it is a very targeted exercise to get that abs working with minimal effort. The other awesome thing about the exercise is that it teaches you to do that posterior tilt or tilting your hips up to the sky which helps you better engage all of your core.
This is a cool way to get activation and pump through the quads. It is a standard squat but at the top of the movement, we do not activate our glutes and squeeze our glutes, we have a tilt forward in order to keep the quads tight and clenchable!
Do you want to feel your glutes? Good news! This exercise will do the trick! This an effective glute and leg strengthening exercise with a wee bit of balance thrown in for good measure. You’re about to see if you have one good side and one gumby side!
At first you will almost plonk down. The aim is to get better so that you can sit down in a controlled manner. As my mum says “Plonk is your for grandmother” hehe
Tip: Preferably use a leg curl machine that is angled as opposed to flat since an angled position is more favorable for hamstrings recruitment.
Never use so much weight on the exercise that you start using swinging and jerking as you can risk both lower back and hamstring injury.
Need to target your hamstrings? Here you go. The Hamstring Machine Curl does the trick nicely. A few things to be mindful of. 1. You are unlikely to ever need a lot of weight on this exercise. So never use so much weight on the exercise that you start using swinging and jerking as you can risk both lower back injury and also a hamstring tear.
Variations: Since you have three foot positions you have in reality three exercises.
This exercise is given it’s name as it’s like dragging another person to where they need to go.. odd that it’s a shallow grave.. but hey.. given the resistance and how potentially angry you might be in how much resistance they give you? The name stuck!
Named after two-time Mr. Olympia champ Larry Scott, who never did any exercise in the conventional style; the Scott press is an interesting variation on a standard shoulder press because it takes the triceps out of the press. To do it correctly, rotate your shoulders forward as the weight is in front of your face. When you bring the weights away from your face and up, pull your shoulders backward as much as possible. This is an exercise where the muscle is under tension at all times and thus it’s sometimes difficult to perform these correctly, but the feeling you get in your shoulders is undeniable.
This exercise is a great way to learn what it feels like to create hip extension – which means you are shortening your glutes and contracting them! The versatility of the exercise can’t be ignored and it can be done in a variety of places! The edge of a bed, couch, bench.. it’s a fantastic way to wake up your butt!
This is an evolution of the Bench Bridge exercise. The evolution being that you now will be conducting the bridge with only one leg on the ground which is definitely an increase in challenge!
Sunday Wednesday Hi there – Captain Obvious here – Yes – we are all busy and often we simply don’t have time or are too tired to make dinner. Allow me to find you a quick little trick that will save you time, money and a case of the guilts. The Sunday Wednesday is the…
Walking – you can do this by yourself.. with your dog.. somebody else’s dog? I don’t know.. be creative.. but within the law! Try and get your heartrate up a bit!