Stellar Leg & Core Total Gym Workout
Featuring the X-Large Squat Stand
Hello Total Gym Team! It’s Master Trainer JayDee here for an installment of a new Total Gym Accessory-Based Workout Series.
Each vlog/blog in this series will feature one of the awesome accessories designed by the brilliant engineers at Total Gym. Today, we are featuring the Extra Large Squat Stand. Adding any of our accessories will truly feel like having a whole new piece of equipment. Grab yours here: https://totalgymdirect.com/shop/total-gym-extra-large-squat-stand/.
If you do happen to have a smaller squat stand that came standard with your Total Gym, you will still be able to follow the workout on the accompanying video but you will see and experience the difference. This will inspire and motivate you even more to upgrade yours today!
I always preach about the versatility of your Total Gym. I have had mine in my home gym now for over 21 years, and I am still coming up with new exercises and different ways to create a new and fresh workout.
When I certify personal trainers on the Total Gym, I give them the following challenge: Go show me any piece of equipment on the gym floor, and I guarantee you I can emulate that machine/exercise on the Total Gym. And in over 20 years, I have yet to lose that challenge!
Nothing stagnates your motivation more than doing the same old boring workout routine week in and week out. And here is the real problem: doing the same workout also stagnates your physical results and potential progress.
My all-time favorite workout saying is, “To keep your muscles progressing, you gotta keep em’ guessing!” How do you keep your muscles guessing? I’m glad you asked 🙂 By changing up your exercises and/or any of the variables (repetition range, amount of resistance, speed, super-sets, range of motion, angles, etc.)
The versatility of your Total Gym makes this easy. But when you start to add an accessory, or several, it totally turns up the volume on that versatility. If I may steal from the cult classic movie Spinal Tap, on the scale of 1 to 10, it takes it to 11!
Here is a preview of what you’ll see when you go check out the video:
- Warm-Up – A dynamic leg warm-up to get your heart pumping and your blood flowing
- Single Leg Work with Abs – remember we all tend to be stronger on one side. You can regain cemetery and balance out your body by doing unilateral work. By doing so, eventually your weaker side will catch up to your stronger side.
- Plyometric Palooza! – Jumping is great for strengthening your leg muscles and, more importantly, your bone density. Plyos do a terrific job of giving you a Fun, cardio workout and toning your entire lower body!
- Side Lying Single Leg – A 3 for 1 special as I show you how to layer in an Inner Thigh exercise as well as an Oblique Crunch for a svelte waist line.
- Sprinter Start – Another Fun plyometric leg exercise to torch some fat calories and power up your glutes.
- Pilates Front Support – A floating plank exercise that will impress your friends and family 🙂
- Pilates Semi-Circle – A yummy spine stretch and great strengthener for your hamstrings, glutes, and lower back.
Go check out the video, crank up your favorite tunes, and enjoy a rockin’ lower body and overall core session. Keep the questions and comments coming, as I Love This Stuff!
