Bend your hips back and lower your torso, allowing your knees to bend as needed, until you feel your lower back is beginning to lose its arch. Squeeze your glutes and hamstrings to come back up. Grab a dumbbell in one hand, and rest the other hand and knee on a bench.
Let your arm hang straight down. Keeping your lower back in its natural arch, row the weight until it touches your side.
Perform all your reps with one arm first, and then switch arms and repeat. Lie on your back on the floor and rest your heels on a bench or chair. Brace your abs and push onto your heels to raise your hips off the floor until your body forms a straight line. Sit at a lat pulldown station and hold the bar with an outside shoulder-width grip.
Pull the bar down to your collarbone. Hold a dumbbell with one hand and stand on the opposite leg. Keeping your lower back arched, bend forward at the hips as far as you can and then extend your hips to come back up.
Complete all your reps on one side and then switch sides. Hold a dumbbell in each hand and, keeping your upper arms against your sides, curl the weights up to shoulder level. Get on the floor in pushup position, then lower your weight onto your forearms.
Brace your abs and hold the position—body completely straight—for 60 seconds, or as long as you can. Perform the workout three days a week for four weeks, resting at least one day between each session. On the weight exercises, choose a load that allows you to complete a few more reps than the prescribed number you may need to adjust this load between sets as you discover your strength levels. For instance, if an exercise calls for 12 reps, choose a load that you estimate you can perform 15 reps with before having to stop but complete only Perform the exercise pairs marked A and B as alternating sets, resting 60 seconds between sets.
On your very first training day, perform only one set for each exercise. Progress to two or more sets as the set prescriptions below dictate from your second workout on. Front Squat Sets: Reps: 8 Rest: 60 sec. Start with the barbell on the supports of a power rack at about shoulder height. Grab the bar overhand and raise your elbows until your upper arms are parallel to the floor. All of these add up to a much healthier, fitter body that is less likely to be injured. You end up looking pretty good, too!
This workout is designed for overall health and fitness gains of a healthy, adult individual who has never lifted weights before, or who is very inexperienced at it. You may note that the majority of exercises are machine based; this is intentional as an unconditioned beginner, has less integrity in the joints, less stability in the core which supports the entire body during training; and this makes one more apt to be injured when attempting to lift free weight dumbbells, barbells when just starting out.
Using machines provides support for these weaker areas and allows the intended muscle to be isolated and strengthened before progressing to free weight. Jaime is a personal trainer and group exercise instructor certified through the American Council on Exercise. View all articles by this author. I have been weightlifting but I feel like I wander aimlessly without a plan but this is a great plan.
So happy I found you! Consistently stick to this plan along with good nutrition and you will really start to make progress. Would love to know how you get on with it over the coming weeks. Any questions when going through the program just give me a shout.
This is so great. Thank you David. Quick question, for legs muscle growth in general quads, glutes with what weight can I begin? Thank you!!!! Firstly I want to apologise for the late reply. We have been revamping the whole site over the last few months and a lot of comments have slipped past us. The weights you will need to choose comes down to trial and error at first.
The two initial ramp up sets before your main working set will give you a good idea of what weight you will need to stay within the required rep range. So for example start with a fairly light to moderate weight on your first ramp up set. One you know you can lift comfortably for a good 10 to 12 reps. Then up it by around 5 to 10kg for your second ramp up set. Then up it another 5 to 10kg for your work set. If you get you get to 6 reps and feel like you could push out loads more, then you know next time you will need to raise your weights.
How do I incorporate a running schedule with lifting?? I run 5 days a week. Firstly I would like to apologize for the lengthy delay in getting back to you. I really hope this reply makes its way to you. Could you clarify something for me?
What are your main goals? What are you trying to achieve from training? Are you a competitive runner, or do you run purely for fitness or weight loss reasons? I have been at it for two weeks and already seeing a difference. As I am new to lifting, curious if there is any ab workouts to throw in the mix to this routine that you recommend? I can only apologize for the slow response and hope this reply finds you. There has been an incredible amount that has gone on, but I am back as normal now.
David Punter. Hi Tiffany If you are brand new to weight lifting then its all going to be ab out trial and error over your first few weeks. I want to build my body Reply. If you have any questions about the program just shout.
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