Thursday, April 23, 2009

Muscle Building/Fat Burning Lower Body Workout

Yes, you can build lean muscle and burn fat at the same time. Granted, you may not burn as much fat or build as much muscle compared to training for each goal separately.

Today I had a great lower body training session. The gym I train at was practically empty, except for a few people doing the bench press and machines.

Today was a wonderful mixture of squats, RDLs (Romanian deadlifts), glute-ham raises, split squats, and planks. All of these exercises were in a slightly higher rep range than I've been training in, but it was a great change of pace.

Make sure you include exercises that hit your "posterior chain". The PC is the majority of your backside: hamstrings, glutes, and lowerback. Some great exercises are sumo-deadlifts, RDLs, single-leg RDL, long stride lunges, glute-ham raises, dumbbell swings, stability ball leg curls, and many others.

Make sure you train your posterior chain!

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