Name: Playbook - Nikki McGrath - W4/D1 Leg Day: Quads
Uploaded: 2024-04-16T18:44:10.757Z
Duration: 50 min
Description: W4/D1 Leg Day: Quads

Nikki

Happy New Week Team! 

Today’s Leg Day will be focusing on toning and strengthening your legs. Focus on the muscles you are working on, and remember proper form and technique is more important than heavy weights.

For best results: Finish w/ 10-12 minutes of an incline walk, stair stepper, bike ride, or run.

Repeat these two exercises back to back with minimal rest.

- 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

Barbell back squat

Sumo Squat: 

Start with grabbing one dumbbell & rest it on the ground in front of you. 

Get into a wide stance: feet should be pointing out to the side, and core engaged. Tuck your hips in so your back will be inline with them. Pull your shoulders down and back. 

Next, squat down to pick up your weight, and rep it out, ensuring your knees stay inline with your toes.

Dumbbell sumo squat

Superset

- Sit against a wall with your legs and hips bent at 90 degrees
- Hold for time

Wall sit

Repeat these two exercises back to back with minimal rest. 🔥

For a squat to curtsy lunge start with grabbing a dumbbell in each hand.

Start with a squat: ensure your feet are hip distance apart, toes pointed forward, and core engaged. As you squat down, make sure you’re keeping your back straight and knees inline with your toes.

As you come up from the squat, Step one leg back behind you at a 45 degree angle.
Ensure your shoulders and pulled down and back, back is straight, hips are inline, and core is engaged. 
Next, squat down in between your leg position, going as low as you can. Make sure you step in back far enough to where you can lunge down with depth. Lunge on the left side, then the right. 

The squat to lunge/lunge is 1 rep.

Squat to curtsy lunge

For this exercise, start with proper squat form: 

Toes should be pointed straight ahead, core engaged, and shoulders pulled down and back. Back should be straight and in line with your hips. 

As you squat down, ensure that your knees are inline with your 2nd toes. Explode up and do a jumping Jack out. Land in a squat, keeping knees bent. Repeat.

Squat jacks

- Keep your chest up and hold dumbbells at the shoulders or by your sides
- Step back and bring your knee down until both legs are at 90 degrees
- Step forward back to the initial position 
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Deficit Dumbbell reverse lunge

For this exercise, step back into a reverse lunge, ensuring your feet are hip distance apart. Make sure your front foot is inline with your heel.

Press through your back toe, and aim to have your knee bent at a 90 degree angle.. 

Keep your chest up, and back straight. Engage through your core. Hold for desired time.

Hold on one side, then repeat to the other side.

Reverse Lunge Hold

Reverse Lunge Pulses

Lunge Triset

- Elevate heels onto a weight plate, ensuring that your feet are pointed forward. 
-Engage your core and ensure your back is inline with your hips. 
- Hold a single dumbbell in the goblet position (two hands on one dumbbell) 
- Lower into the bottom of a squat, pressing through your heels and quads. 
- Stand up to full extension
Repeat

Dumbbell heels elevated goblet squat

W4/D1 Leg Day: Quads

Killer! Got a good sweat in. Still walking funny 2 days later. 😂

Christina

Went heavy this round and quads are burning!

Rebekah

Killer! Just under an hour and I’m sweatin like I worked out for 2 🥵

 Cassie

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My shoulders and back are feeling it 🔥😅

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W2/D1 Leg Day: Quads

Whooo, great way to start the week. Loved this one🔥❤️

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Absolutely loved it! Glute gains for realzzzz

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Arms are shakey. Definitely going to feel this tomorrow!

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Absolutely annihilated my legs and I’m here for it 🥵🥵🥵

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