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The “heels to heaven” exercise, also called the “Upward Hip Thrust,” is an easy-to-do exercise that you can do anywhere, and it targets your lower abdominal muscles. It’s a great exercise to add to your workout regimen to tighten your midsection.
Equipment needed: Just a clear spot on the floor!
The dead curl press exercise combines three strength moves (dumbbell deadlift, bicep curl, and overhead press) to build lean, sexy muscle while burning fat!
Looking for the best bodyweight glute exercise to activate glutes? The froggy glute lift exercise will round out and tighten your butt! Find out how!
One Arm Dumbell Bench Rows demonstrated by Julie Lohre Fitness Expert One Arm Dumbell Bench Rows was last modified: January 19th, 2022 by Julie Lohre
This exercise demonstration is for those who wish to do a kettle bell swing but may not have the proper kettlebell equipment. This variation is shown using a traditional dumbell weight. Kettle Bell Swing with Dumbbell Modification was last modified: October 10th, 2022 by rglohre
Dumbell Goblet Clean Press
Bent Over Gorilla Rows 1. Feet shoulder width apart with two kettlebells or Dumbbells between them. Hinge at the hip and lower your arms to the weight. This should put you in a deadlift position. 2. Bring your knees back and do not let them go forward. Now your engaging your glutes and hamstrings. 3. Row One weight up while …
This exercise, similar to the 45º Lunge with Lateral Raise, focuses on two areas, legs and shoulders.
In this variation of the traditional forward lunge, we add a lateral raise in the bottom position of the forward lunge. By adding the lateral raise portion to this exercise, we target both upper and lower body in one movement. The lateral raises will target your delts, while the forward lunges will target your hips, glutes, quads, hamstrings, and core and the hard-to-reach muscles of your inner thighs.
Sure, a curtsy lunge may sound like a weird, medieval, princess training exercise, but it’s actually one of the best exercises for toning your inner thighs.
The banded good mornings exercise is a variation used to target the glute muscles, low back muscles and hamstring muscles.The band used to perform banded good mornings provides accommodating resistance, meaning the closer one gets to full contraction, the more tension is placed on the target muscle groups.
Transform that flat butt into a perky booty! There are lots of exercises that you can do to get a more rounded, perky butt and banish the pancake butt. 🥞 Add these into your leg workout along with squats, single leg deadlifts and plank glute crossovers to get a firm and round butt! 🍑
Fix that Pancake Butt! There are lots of exercises that you can do to get a more rounded, perky butt and banish the flat butt syndrome. Add these into your leg workout along with squats, single leg deadlifts and banded glute pull aparts to get a rockin round booty! 🍑
Looking for a great leg extension alternative? Bodyweight Leg Extensions is one of the best quad and leg defining exercises you can do WITHOUT EQUIPMENT!
Julie Lohre – Single Leg Skip Up Plyometric Exercise – Exercise Database EXERCISE LIBRARY VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:We’re going to get your heart rate up and we’re going to work your legs with single leg skip ups. Allright! This is awesome Plyometric movement. I’m going to start facing the side so you can see a little bit better. Lower abs are tight, …
Squat variations can help you maximize your workout and utilize more muscles. Learn how to do squat exercises with side leg raises in this free fitness video from Julie Lohre. Squats with Lateral Leg Raise Exercise Demonstration. In this video Julie uses a dumbell and resistance band. These are both optional equipment and the exercise can be modified to fit …
Squats overall are an amazing workout for the legs and glutes. Every fitness professional around tends to prescribe squats for leg strength as well as for calorie burn, since working your larger muscle groups burns more calories.
Learning the basic squat is your first goal on this front, but once you have the basics, it is important to mix up your workouts and add dimension to the moves.
The Standing Side Crunch with Leg Lift or Dancers side bend with knee lift is a great combination exercise that works your core as well as your external obliques, outer thighs and is an exercise move you can do anywhere.
The Goblet Squat is a lower-body exercise in which you hold a kettlebell, dumbbell or kettlebell with both hands in front of your chest.
It’s the ideal Squat variation to teach new or even seasoned athletes proper squat technique; however it can be used to build strength for everyone.
The best lying leg curl alternative can be done at home w/ stability ball. Fitbody Julie Lohre shows the hamstring ball curl ins to work glutes & hamstrings
Julie Lohre, fitness cover model, demonstrates proper form for the Barbell Deadlift exercise. Barbell Deadlift was last modified: November 26th, 2018 by Julie Lohre
