OMG, Y'all are doin' my head in -as a southern brit might say (southern as in Chattanooga, brit as in lived in London for a while - nuffin to do wif Croydon) - with all these back door workouts. I'll have to try the bench jumps and the going below the floor type stuff. I think I've got better-than-most balance when it comes to squats and already go almost all the way to the floor. I've been working on staying there for 3 secs before standing back up just to make sure I'm not momentuming it. Dead lifts seem to work a little lower back, a lot of hamstring for me - still no glutes there. I'll have to look up the Romanian type. I want a bubble butt...
I will just add in that sometimes into my workouts, I will actually catch myself looking worse in the mirror than before I even started. Like stuff shifts in odd ways before it shrinks. Even dh noticed this. I seem to take on a really odd shape 3 weeks into a new exercise, and then the next week I'll go down a size. It's like I'm catching myself mid-morph or something. Might this be where you are now?
I tried the below the floor squats and the bench stradles (I couldn't remember any more) - owwww!!!!!! I think it might be a week before I'm able to do another LBWO. I tried them out at the gym and I noticed other people trying them out afterwards.
LOL, I love it when I do some wacky exercise then I see others trying it and the other trainers using it the next day!
This week's circus trick is doing squats (or anything!) standing on a medicine ball. Put it in front of a flat bench so that you can hold the bench as you start to get your balance. JUMP off before you fall off. I've progressed to doing shoulder presses with ....drum roll.... 3 pound weights!....standing in squat position on the medicine ball. Any heavier and I fall off right away. It's a great core, quad and glute workout. And you look really cool if you can actually do it
I decided that my next legs challenge is going to be ten sets of squats, BB + 25s, 25 reps each set. My knee doc wants me to do low weights, high reps so that's what I'll give him. I'll report back tomorrow (I'm into doing ten sets of exercises now, don't know why, just bored or )
This week's circus trick is doing squats (or anything!) standing on a medicine ball. Put it in front of a flat bench so that you can hold the bench as you start to get your balance. JUMP off before you fall off. I've progressed to doing shoulder presses with ....drum roll.... 3 pound weights!....standing in squat position on the medicine ball. Any heavier and I fall off right away. It's a great core, quad and glute workout. And you look really cool if you can actually do it
The fittest guy at my gymn squats on the swiss ball and then swings a medicine ball from side to side. You're quite right about this kind of carry-on looking really cool. I want to do it. In fact I think I'll 'postively visualise' it and then I'll be able to. Practice makes perfect, I suppose.
I'll have to look up the Romanian type. I want a bubble butt...
Mel!
I'll report back tomorrow (I'm into doing ten sets of exercises now, don't know why, just bored or 
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