Name: Playbook - Cara Daniels - Lower Body Exercise Library
Uploaded: 2023-04-05T02:14:37.987Z
Duration: 120 min
Description: Lower Body Exercise Library

- Place the bar just above your feet
- Engage your lats
- Pull the bar up with neutral spine 
- Reach full extension keeping your upper body tight

Conventional deadlift

- Step one leg back behind the other leg
- Bring your knee down until it reaches 90 degrees
- Push through your front leg to bring your back leg forward to starting position 
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Curtsy lunge

- Place feet higher on the platform
- Point toes out to a 45 degree angle
- Keeping your back flat against the pad
- Lower your legs towards your chest
- Drive through your heels to press back to starting position

Leg press (glute focused)

- Place your upper back on the bench
- Push through your heel raising your hips 
- Engage your glutes at the top
- Work both sides

Single leg hip thrust

- Lay on the floor with your legs bent
- Push through your heels bringing your hips up 
- Squeezing your glutes 
- Lower back to starting position

Glute bridge

- Start with feet wide and toes pointed out
- Engage your lats
- Pull the bar up keeping a neutral spine and upper body tight
- Reach full extension with your legs 
- Keeping a flat back lower bar to ground

Sumo deadlift

- Hold a weight with elbows slightly bent 
- Raise and lower your upper body engaging your lower back and glutes
- Keep your upper body rounded as you lift up

Weighted hyperextensions

- Bring your heels towards your glutes
- Lower with a slow controlled motion
- Focus on engaging your hamstrings