Cathe and Lorraine doing Stiff Legged Deadlifts with toes elevated during STS Meso #3 – Optional Leg Workout. Good form is extremely important when doing stiff legged deadlifts for safety reasons. Cathe gives some great form pointers during this exercise and during the 3 minute breaks to help you do this move correctly.
Cathe and Lorraine doing Stiff Legged Deadlifts with toes elevated during STS Meso #3 – Optional Leg Workout. Your toes are elevated to add an extra stretch to your calves which in turn causes an extra stretch on your hamstrings. This causes more muscle fibers in you hamstrings to be activated and increases the effectiveness
Robert, Cathe, Greg and Deazie doing Stiff Legged Deadlifts during STS Meso #3 – Optional Leg Workout.
Greg squatting some heavy weights inside a safety rack called a T-Rex during STS Meso #3 – Optional Leg Workout.
Deazie doing a barbell squat with a weighted vest during STS Meso #3 – Optional Leg Workout. To do a true strength workout you will probably need to use a squat rack, but the weighted vest option will allow people who don’t have a squat rack to still do this routine and get a workout
Lorraine doing a barbell squat with a weighted vest during STS Meso #3 – Optional Leg Workout
Pictured above in the STS Meso #3 Optional – Leg group shot. (Lorraine, Cathe, Robert, Lorraine, Deazie and Greg) This is a very basic, but extremely effective and tough workout. You will use the 5% method and do 4 exercises (Squats, Stiff Legged Deadlifts, Front Squats and Static Lunges) for 4 sets each for your
Pictured above in the STS Meso #3 Plyo – Leg group shot. (Stuart, Jai, Cathe, Lorraine, Deazie and Greg) Mesocycle #3 features two different types of Leg workouts:First, in the Plyo-Leg lower body workouts ( 4 workouts) you will use a mix of traditional endurance weighted exercises using weights that are about 70 percent of
Deazie shares her excitement with Cedie and Brenda after finishing STS Meso #3. We will be back later today with pictures from the filming of Ab Circuits and Cathe’s six new ab routines.
Greg doing One arm Rows during STS Meso #3 using the 5% method. Don’t worry if you can’t lift what Greg can. You will always use your own 1RM when selecting a weight for any exercise.
Robert and Deazie doing Incline Chest Flys during STS Meso #3 using the 5% method. The STS program can be done and enjoyed by both women and men.
Greg doing Chest Flys during STS Meso #3 using the 5% method.
