Cathe Friedrich
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Muscle Endurance (about 63 minutes in length)is a tough high rep muscular endurance workout. The format is as follows:
You will do a non-weighted active warm up, followed by high rep exercises that hit each of the major muscle groups, an abdominal routine that includes a medicine ball, and a stretch.
The exercises are in the following order:
Leg presses
Squats
Deadlifts
Back
Chest
Leg presses
Lunges
Triceps
Biceps
Leg Presses
Glute Raises
Shoulders
Abs(with medicine ball)
Stretch
Although this workout shares similarities to Power Hour, it differs in many ways. As I always say, it is important to vary your workouts to keep your muscle stimulated and inspired.
Some of the differences in Muscle Endurance is that Leg Presses are included with the leg work. Also, we target the legs three different times throughout the workout. We also did not play a separate song for each body part, rather let various mixed songs continue to play as we did the workout. Another difference is that we introduced the medicine ball to the abdominal workout. We loved the changes and are excited to share this workout with you.
Oh yes, I want to mention that early on in rehearsals we were using a heavy weight when we did the leg presses and found that we were using a great deal of momentum with this weight in order to get our bodies up to the top. Since sloppy form is not ever encouraged, we dropped down to lighter weight and were able to really focus on getting a superb glute and hamstring contraction. Once we mastered this technique we noticed that we were able to gradually increase the weight again, and keep our good form. On the video itself, we do the leg presses with the lighter weight and I would like to encourage you to do the same until you master your technique. As your technique improves, gradually increase your weight load for a greater challenge. I will remind you of this in the opening speech again
You will do a non-weighted active warm up, followed by high rep exercises that hit each of the major muscle groups, an abdominal routine that includes a medicine ball, and a stretch.
The exercises are in the following order:
Leg presses
Squats
Deadlifts
Back
Chest
Leg presses
Lunges
Triceps
Biceps
Leg Presses
Glute Raises
Shoulders
Abs(with medicine ball)
Stretch
Although this workout shares similarities to Power Hour, it differs in many ways. As I always say, it is important to vary your workouts to keep your muscle stimulated and inspired.
Some of the differences in Muscle Endurance is that Leg Presses are included with the leg work. Also, we target the legs three different times throughout the workout. We also did not play a separate song for each body part, rather let various mixed songs continue to play as we did the workout. Another difference is that we introduced the medicine ball to the abdominal workout. We loved the changes and are excited to share this workout with you.
Oh yes, I want to mention that early on in rehearsals we were using a heavy weight when we did the leg presses and found that we were using a great deal of momentum with this weight in order to get our bodies up to the top. Since sloppy form is not ever encouraged, we dropped down to lighter weight and were able to really focus on getting a superb glute and hamstring contraction. Once we mastered this technique we noticed that we were able to gradually increase the weight again, and keep our good form. On the video itself, we do the leg presses with the lighter weight and I would like to encourage you to do the same until you master your technique. As your technique improves, gradually increase your weight load for a greater challenge. I will remind you of this in the opening speech again
