Leg day, arm day, core day. Push, pull, squat, press. All the ways we organize workouts are tough, aren’t they? But a full-body workout doesn’t necessarily have to have a color-coded Google calendar. While strength training regimens often require planning and organization to build muscle, if you’re short on time, you can also hit all of your major muscle groups with total movements. effective match.
This new standing Pilates workout from East River Pilates trainer Brian Spencer will have your whole body rocking in just 11 minutes. You’ll use two light dumbbells (Spencer chooses the 2-pound toning ball) and brain power to activate and engage.
“When it comes to strength training, here is my number one effective tip: Use your brain!” Barry’s CEO Joey Gonzalez previously told Well + Good. “If you focus on the targeted muscle group while performing the exercise, you can activate and challenge those muscles exponentially more.”
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That brain power is key to getting the most out of this exercise. There are only four basic moves, with variations of arm exercises that you’ll perform while curling, crouching, squatting, and squatting. Making sure your glutes are on and your abs tight will not only ensure good form, but also create movements that seem to focus on the arms to challenge your entire body.
For example, on the first move — a static hip rotation with arms outstretched — Spencer recommends that you “feel a lot in your shoulders, hamstrings, glutes, and abs.” While the hamstrings “work like crazy, we’re looking for length for the postural muscles, we’re working that abs and we’re strengthening the lower back.”
A series of chest openings, back presses, and shoulder arm movements are performed in a lunge (with the glutes of the front legs powering it all) on a hinge. Next came the arm reach and twist while in the squat, and finally Spencer brought it all together by adding a lunge to the squat while maintaining the reach and twist. person of the arm.
If it sounds challenging, that’s because it is. But that’s four moves, and 11 minutes, and then you’re done. Talk about efficiency.
