Exercise of the Week: Step-Ups

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Just because the summer season has reached its end, it doesn't niggard that it's interval to let our exercise programs go. Community tend to lay on more weight during the colder months for a sporadic reasons: 1) Since they probably won't be donning their bathing suits at the beach for perfectly some time, and 2) On account of our bodies are designed to slow our metabolism down -- a carry-over from our extra primitive days when aliment sources became more scarce during the boreal season. For these reasons, and probably about eight thousand others, it's a smart idea to deposit stoking the flames of your metabolism fly fini the upcoming frost. So, to help you discharge just that, I'm showing you an practice this week that will cure you burn some businesslike calories while toning up your legs.

Called the Step-Up, this cardiovascular movement will helping hand you precipitation up your metabolism as you strengthen and tone your quadriceps, glutes, hamstrings, and yet your calves. To perform this exercise, bow by standing in front of a weight bench or any safe substitute for one (tip: returns two milk crates, spread them apart, and place a firm, wooden board over them -- a great, substitute bench). Next, take your honorable foot and berth it on the surface of the bench. From there, step-up onto the bench, using your honest leg to dynamism the rest of your body up. Once you are standing firmly on top of the bench with both feet, transaction back down with one leg and chase with the other. Then, process up onto the bench with your left leg, later with your right. Repeat this movement for several repetitions, increasing celerity and conceivably all the more adding microscopic weights (dumbells in plam bullwork well, as does holding a medicine ball) as you get stronger and another recognized with the movement.

I constitute a very great video demonstration for the Step-Up on ShapeFit.com. To view it, click HERE.

Note: The content presented in this publish is for informational purposes only. Please consult your doctor or fitness able before starting a physical fitness program.

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