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Functional trainer. . Love this piece of kit 😍 . Mine is different to the ones you get in the gym (takes more to set up). As my clients become more confident I start to get them to move weights around themselves so they become confident in the gym a
You don’t need a gym. . I keep a few small pieces of kit at home for workouts 🏋🏻‍♀️ . For this you need 2 x dumbbells (water bottles work well), the band and mat are nice to have, but aren’t necessary (unless you have a super slippe
Resistance training using bands vs weights. . This weekend has been mostly writing a lot of words. However, between words I have been able to get in a couple of workouts using my home toolkit ➡️ 5kg, 15kg and 25kg resistance bands. . A scoping review
Leg Day Warm Up Exercises. . These can be used as a workout or as a warm up. I used them as my leg day warm up, but would have switch them to my workout if I’d had a bad night sleep. . Movement (any movement) allows your blood 🩸 and lymph to c
Arms + Core Dumbbell Workout 🏋🏻‍♀️ . Ignore my frown on this one ☝️ Was before uni and was in focused mode! . Having not managed to exercise for a couple of days (thanks period 🩸 pains), it felt good to ease back into exercise with this worko
Diabetes + Exhaustion + Stress. . One of our assignments provides a patient vignette of a 54 yo female, in a stressful job w/ a 2 hour commute, with financial worries and if all that wasn’t tough enough, they are peri-menopausal. . If that wasn
Functional Trainer. . My favourite piece of gym equipment as it’s very versatile. . Yesterday’s workout was: . Squats+rows x 12 reps . Lat pull down + fly . Squat + core press + wood chop . Leg raise + scissor legs for core . Rotational p
Workouts that target muscles around you waist . One of my clients wants to ‘get their waist back’, so I’ve put together a programme for them that targets the muscles around her waist ➡️ any muscle that originates or inserts into he
Getting protein in for breakfast is not easy. Here are a few ways we did this without using protein powder today. . Ideally I look for 20g of protein per meal (ideally 30-40g for muscle growth). You want to get approx 1-1.5g of protein per kg body we
Hello 👋 Leg day 🏋🏻‍♀️ . A few of the exercises I put my legs through today. I kept this simple. . 2 leg exercises ➡️ one with a barbell, the other with a dumbbell . x 4 exercises in total . x 15 reps each . x 3 sets w/ 30 sec rest between set
Full Body Workout 🏋🏻‍♀️ . Easing myself back into full body workouts with this dumbbell and hip band set. . 10-15 reps of each (the last 2-3 reps should feel hard work 😓) x 3 sets . #workout #fullbodyworkout #health #dumbbells #hipband #hipba