{"id":7199,"date":"2017-08-18T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2017-08-18T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:01:47","slug":"bands-and-balls-and-bodyweight-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/18\/bands-and-balls-and-bodyweight-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Bands and balls and bodyweight, oh my."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, #girlswholift or #boyswholift or #catswholift or whatever &#8211; I&#8217;m finally changing up my strength training next week and figured I&#8217;d share my plan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5504\" src=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jan5-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jan5-3.jpg 597w, http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jan5-3-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Nachocat isn&#8217;t really into the heavy lifting.\u00a0 She&#8217;s more into super short plyometric workouts with REALLY long rest intervals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My goal is to focus on bands and balls this month or so.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to hit the gym and lift some actual iron, but my schedule right now isn&#8217;t making that easy.\u00a0 So, we grabbed a second set of bands so we can do much more resistance at lower reps (8-12) and start werking that Hypertrophy phase of actually GETTING STRONGER.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my plan.\u00a0 These exercises. 2x week.\u00a0 Either roll through all of them once or twice each session OR pick 8-10 that hit all the spots and do three sets.\u00a0 Or, I may do them as circuts, pick an leg, core, and arm exercise and repeat three times and then move onto the next.\u00a0 Or maybe alternate through all of these things.\u00a0 The first week I&#8217;m going to give all of them a try and see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Quads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Band Squats (12)<\/li>\n<li>Band Lunges (12)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Glutes\/Hammies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8_BIFDgueX4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ball bridge leg curl<\/a> (12)<\/li>\n<li>Band walks both ways (also ab\/adductors) (20)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Abs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plank progression (80 sec &#8211; hold 20 sec, leg raise 10 sec each legx4, hold 20 sec)<\/li>\n<li>V-ups (12)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=52fJtnaeKZg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stability ball pike<\/a> (12)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bj6Ztf2c6c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ball pass <\/a>(10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obliques:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jxl9Fxcr-00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stir the pots<\/a> (12)<\/li>\n<li>Bicycles (30)<\/li>\n<li>Woodchoppers (12)<\/li>\n<li>Side plank leg raise (10 sec hold, 10 leg raises)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pushups with band (12)<\/li>\n<li>Lateral raise with band (12)<\/li>\n<li>Rows (12)<\/li>\n<li>Overhead Tricep Extension (12)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Between <a href=\"https:\/\/greatist.com\/fitness\/resistance-band-exercises\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article on Greatist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oiselle.com\/blog\/core-routine-runners-dozen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oiselle dozen<\/a>, this should cover most of the things I&#8217;m doing here (but if not, I put links to youtube videos above).<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7200\" src=\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aug17-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; 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I&#8217;m finally changing up my strength training next week and figured I&#8217;d share my plan. Nachocat isn&#8217;t really into the heavy lifting.\u00a0 She&#8217;s more into super short plyometric workouts with REALLY long rest intervals. My goal is to focus on bands and balls this month or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,28],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUhDu-1S7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}