It’s Day 18 of this 6 week program and we are working our legs. I hope you had a good day off yesterday and rested your muscles and made smart and healthy food choices. So today we are continuing with
I recently started following your blog and how wonderful it is! I was beginning to get bored with the gym and needed to learn new exercises. This blog has been able to gain interest back into the gym. That being said… I workout at a small gym – I live in a more rural area. For the cable stiff leg and split squats with cable, what would you suggest differently as the cables are stationary and are either high or low – or level for the cable row. Please let me know. Continue your awesomeness and workouts!!
Katelyn! Thanks for the sweet comments and I totally agree, the gym can get boring and sometimes its nice to mix things up. I know I learn new things from people all the time. As far what you can do in place of using the cable, for still legged deadlifts you can use dumbbells or a straight barbell and you can do lunges in place (not walking) for the split squats. For straight legged deadlifts using dumbbells or a barbell, just bend your knees slightly as your bend your body forward from the hips and then use your hamstrings to pull you back up and squeeze. I hope that helps and makes sense! If you have any more questions let me know! Have a great workout. Shannon 🙂
Would you happen to have an alternative to the vertical press? So instead of the particular machine in your video, would you be able to recommend another?
You can do straight leg deadlifts with a barbell, dumbbells, kettle bells or even the rope attachment, but this can definitely replace the vertical press.
You don’t have to if you can go beyond the reps you were doing, but if you can’t get out at least double the reps I would go lighter to push your limits.
I recently started following your blog and how wonderful it is! I was beginning to get bored with the gym and needed to learn new exercises. This blog has been able to gain interest back into the gym. That being said… I workout at a small gym – I live in a more rural area. For the cable stiff leg and split squats with cable, what would you suggest differently as the cables are stationary and are either high or low – or level for the cable row. Please let me know. Continue your awesomeness and workouts!!
Katelyn! Thanks for the sweet comments and I totally agree, the gym can get boring and sometimes its nice to mix things up. I know I learn new things from people all the time. As far what you can do in place of using the cable, for still legged deadlifts you can use dumbbells or a straight barbell and you can do lunges in place (not walking) for the split squats. For straight legged deadlifts using dumbbells or a barbell, just bend your knees slightly as your bend your body forward from the hips and then use your hamstrings to pull you back up and squeeze. I hope that helps and makes sense! If you have any more questions let me know! Have a great workout.
Shannon 🙂
Hi Shannon!
Would you happen to have an alternative to the vertical press? So instead of the particular machine in your video, would you be able to recommend another?
Thanks so Much!!
Kari,
You can do straight leg deadlifts with a barbell, dumbbells, kettle bells or even the rope attachment, but this can definitely replace the vertical press.
With last set to failure. Do I have to go lighter?
Maukie,
You don’t have to if you can go beyond the reps you were doing, but if you can’t get out at least double the reps I would go lighter to push your limits.
Shannon 🙂