Name: Playbook - Isaac Wilkie - Leg isolation workout
Uploaded: 2023-03-30T00:28:56.215Z
Duration: 35 min
Description: Leg isolation workout

Everybody’s favourite day, Leg day! Build strength and definition in your legs today with this 35 minute isolation leg blaster!

Tips:
- Begin with bar positioned on your upper back
- Brace your midline and keep your chest up
- Eyes forward as you lower, sitting back and down
- Reach parallel and push through your heels to come back up

Muscles used: 
- Quadriceps
- Gluteus maximus

Barbell back squat

Tips: 
- Slowly lower the bar with a slight bend in your knees, hinging at the hips and keeping your back straight
- Lower weight until you feel a slight stretch in your hamstrings
- Drive your hips forward and use your hamstrings to power back to standing

Muscles worked: 
- Quadriceps 
- Hamstrings 
- Gluteus maximus

Barbell RDL

Tips: 
- Sit on the machine with the pad at the bottom of your shin 
- Extend your legs engaging your quads 
- Pause at the top and lower slowly

Muscles used: 
- Quadriceps

Leg extensions

Tips: 
- With a kettlebell in each hand at your sides step forward into a lunge
- Step back up to the starting position
- Repeat back and forth

Muscles used: 
- Gluteus maximus 
- Hamstrings 
- Adductors 
- Quadriceps

Kettlebell lunges

Tips:
- Raise your heels
- Engage your calves 
- Lower with a slow controlled motion
- Exercise can be done on machine or standing 

Muscles used: 
- Calf muscles (Gastrocnemius & soleus)

Leg isolation workout

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