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As a trainer, I don’t always start people with advanced movements like the barbell bench, deadlift, or squat. It is easier to learn proper technique with more simple variations of the movement.

If someone can’t hinge at their hips properly, there’s no way we are doing deadlifts! We are starting with an RDL of some sort.

There’s no sense in having someone try to pull their body weight up for a pull up when they can’t even engage their lats properly.

Most people have some sort of imbalance in their shoulders when they are starting out, and won’t be able to press the barbell up evenly on the bench press. I’d rather them do dumbbell bench for a while to create symmetry in their shoulders and learn proper pressing mechanics.

If you need help finding a place to start, send us a message. We are happy to help!

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Full sets and reps for this dumbbell only upper-body workout below👇🏼

🪽Flat Dumbbell Bench Press: 3 x 10
🪽Dumbbell Rows: 3 x 10 each side
🪽Dumbbell Overhead Press: 3 x 10
🪽Dumbbell Lat Pullovers: 3 x 10
🪽Underhand Dumbbell Bicep Curls: 3 x 10
🪽Laying Dumbbell Tricep Extensions: 3 x 10
🪽Lateral Delt Raises: 3 x 10

This is a great workout to do during a deload week, at a hotel gym, or at home! All you need is a pair of dumbbells—ideally an adjustable pair. This is also a great workout if you are dealing with gym anxiety and find it helpful to grab your own corner of the gym to workout in.

All of these exercises can be found with full tutorials on the Infinite Motion App. Start your one month free trial today!

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Let us know what your favorite single-leg exercise is in the comments below👇🏼

We really like the balance of doing both a single-leg exercise that targets your quads and another one that targets the hamstrings. Some more examples of each of these are:

Quads: Single-Leg Squats, Pistol Squats, Bulgarian Split Squats

Hamstrings: Single-Leg Glute Bridges, B-Stance RDLs, Single-Leg Deadlifts

These exercises are important for reasons like increasing your balance, evening out limb strength, and working on hip, ankle, and knee stability. This can in turn benefit movements like your squats and deadlifts in huge way!

We have full tutorials of many different single-leg variations on the Infinite Motion App. Start your 1 month free trial today!

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Comment below which cue you’re going to try on your next pull-up day👇🏼

1️⃣Bring your chest up towards the ceiling.

This will encourage your chest and shoulders to open up and allow you to keep better posture to engage your lats while you pull up to the bar.

2️⃣Drive your elbow back.

This will help you to think about pull-ups being in a slight diagonal plane, rather than a strictly vertical one. Driving the elbows back as you pull up to the bar will help you get a squeeze in your lats. This cue really goes hand-in-hand with the first one.

3️⃣Brace your core and squeeze your legs together

This will help you stabilize your movement and allow less swinging at the bottom of your reps. In turn this will waste less of your energy.

If these cues were helpful, give us a follow, and consider signing up for the Infinite Motion App where we have more in depth exercise tutorials.

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Like the video if you’d try this full body workout!

To create your own full body workout, try choosing an exercise from each of the following categories:

Squat Movement: any squat type exercise that meets your skill level. Back squat, front squat, leg press, goblet squat, TRX squat, etc.

Push Movement: pushing exercise in any plane. Bench press, overhead press, dips, etc.

Hip Hinge Movement: Glute and hamstring focused movement. Deadlifts, RDL, good mornings, glute bridge, back extension, etc.

Pull movement: some type of pulldown or row exercise for your back. Pull ups, lat pulldowns, barbell row, dumbbell row, etc.

Corrective Exercise Movement: an exercise that helps you correct some sort of imbalance you are working on. I.e; face pulls, single leg exercises, rehabilitation exercises.

Isolation Movement: an exercise that isolates a muscle that you want to improve. I.e; chest fly, delt raise, bicep curl, tricep extension, calf raise, etc.

The main focus should be on the compound exercises at the beginning of the workout. Start with the compound exercise you want to improve on the most, as you will be able to perform that exercise the best. These exercises will work multiple muscle groups and be more time efficient. With a full body workout, you have limited time/energy to train everything. We shouldn’t spend too much time with isolation exercises during a workout like this.

We recommend full body workouts to people who are going to workout 1-3 times per week. If you are going to train more often, maybe opt for a training split with more specific muscle groups.

For more help coming up with more workout ideas, try out our coaching app for free for a limited time! We even have programs you can follow based on your skill level.

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Tag a friend who could use this info to hit their next back squat PR👇🏼

These are 3 tips I have to assist people in improving their barbell back squats:

1️⃣Work on core strength! Some good exercises that will help you are isometric ones like planks and bird-dogs. These will help your core to resist movement when you are under a heavy load. Usually your leg strength is not as much of a limiting factor on a barbell back squat 1RM as much as much as your core strength is.
2️⃣Make sure you keep tension on your outer hips (primarily the glute medius) and your inner hips (your adductors). This is accomplished by limiting knee caving by focusing on pushing your hips open and knees out over your toes. This will help you to push trough the bottom of your squat and through the sticking point.
3️⃣Make sure to set up your safeties so that you are not afraid to fail! The safeties should be set just slightly below where the barbell would come down to at the bottom of your squat. Reducing your fear of failure will help you to hit weights and reps that you didn’t think you could hit.

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Need help with deadlifts. Please leave tips in the comments!

JK. This is a Jefferson Curl. I have never tried one before, although I do something similar on the 45 degree back extension machine to train the spinal erectors.

For years i trained strictly with a neutral spine, as I was taught to believe this is the safest way to train. Which, for the most part, I agree with. Especially for beginner or intermediate lifters. However, I do believe that if our muscles have a function, we should train them.

With every other muscle we train them concentrically and eccentricity. Imagine training your lats or pecs purely with isometric holds. I feel like you’d be leaving a lot of gains on the table.

I train my spinal erectors occasionally to allow my spine to handle a small amount of rounding. Years ago I injured my back deadlifting because I rounded my back too much. I attribute the injury to my body’s lack of ability to handle any rounding; I only ever trained my spine in a neutral position. So guess what happened when it was inevitably put in a rounded position… POP.

I’m not saying we should deadlift with the classic teenager shitting dog technique. However, once advanced enough, it may be a good idea to train the spinal erectors. It can add more resilience to our spine in a rounded position, allowing a bit more leeway for accidental rounding.

I started exploring this type of movement in yoga classes. Then, progressed to doing spinal flexion/extension on the back extension machine. That felt sufficient for a while, but I felt like this would be a new challenge.

Don’t do Jefferson Curls, you will probably do them wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing. Spend time doing this without weight for several years first.

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Full sets and reps for this shoulder and arm workout below👇🏼

🌟Dumbbell Overhead Press: 4 x 6-12
🌟Face Pulls: 4 x 10-15
🌟Lateral Delt Raises Supersetted with Barbell Upright Rows: 4x10-15 each
🌟Cable Tricep Extensions: 4 x 10-12
🌟Single-Arm Dumbbell Tricep Extensions: 3 x 10-12 each arm
🌟Barbell Bicep Curls: 3 x 8-12
🌟Cable Bicep Curls: 4 x 6-12

Save for later and tag us when you try it out!

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Send this to a woman who might find this helpful!

Barbell bench press is a really challenging movement for many women. It might be challenging to begin with a traditional 45 lb. barbell if that is all your gym provides.

I suggest starting with dumbbells if this is the case! You can start light and work your way up to 20 lbs. in each hand (most women will be able to start with 7.5-12 lbs. in each hand). If you can complete 3 sets of 8-12 reps at this weight, then you will be a lot more successful with a 45 lb. barbell bench press.

Other options would be using a 20-40 lb. fixed bar or a “women’s bar” that’s 35 lbs. if your gym provides it. Out of these options, the 35 lb. will be more ideal since you’ll be able to set it up in a bench rack.

However, I also think there is benefit to any beginner starting out with dumbbells, since you can utilize them to figure out basic form and even out pressing strength between your left and right sides.

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Comment below whether you like free weights or machines better⤵️

We often get asked by our clients about whether free weights or machines are a better option for them to build strength and muscle. The answer is that both are great options!

Free weights create more of a demand on your stability, which is why you would never be able to squat as much as you can leg press. However, the squat has so many great benefits including it being an exercise that we perform daily to get down to a chair or a toilet.

For beginners, machines can be a really good tool to build up mind-muscle connection and load more weight onto their exercises while they improve the form in their free weight exercises.

We use both types of exercises in our programs since this is also how we train! We recommend generally putting free weight exercises at the beginning of your workouts and and mahcine exercises near the end. This will prioritize exercises that put more demand on your stability before you are too exhausted.

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Do you prefer deadlifts or RDLs? Let us know why you prefer one or the other in the comments!

Deadlifts are a fun and excited exercise if you can perform them without injuring yourself. But, to be able to do that, you may need to practice some RDLs first.

Once you feel proficient at doing an RDL with an adequate range of motion, you can move onto the deadlift and reap the benefits of it.

Since the deadlift is an exercise that most of us can do heavier than any other exercise, it is great for a variety of reasons:

- Immense muscle activation throughout the whole body. Activating all of that muscle at once will release endorphins in our brain so we feel good, and release hormones into our blood that will help us build muscle!

- Translates well to real life: there will always be a time where you need to lift something heavy. If you train yourself to deadlift with great technique, picking up another less heavy object outside of the gym will be easier. Most people injure their back picking up something too heavy, not from deadlifting. Deadlifts will prepare you for this instances.

Feel free to reach out if you need help getting a weightlifting routine started. We got your back!

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Send this to your workout partner who out-lifts you🙃

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Tag someone who you’d like to try this workout with!

This was a fun workout that definitely left my glutes feeling sore the next day🥵The key 🔑 was nice slow tempo reps. I really enjoyed the change up since I typically use barbells in my leg days.

🌟Pause (3 Count) Goblet Squats | 4x6
🌟Dumbbell RDLs | 4x12
🌟Smith Machine Glute Bridges | 3x15
🌟Curtsy Lunges | 3x8-12 each leg
🌟Back Extensions | 3x12

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A friendly reminder to re-rack your weights!

Not everyone uses the same weight as you!

Leaving a 45 pound plate on the machine could be a courtesy to someone, but it is likely a burden to your average gym goer.

Leaving lighter weights on the machine is not good gym etiquette either. Not everyone warms up with the same weight!

Unless the next person specifically asked you to leave the weight on there for them, leave the bar/machine empty when you’re done!

Also make sure…
- Dumbbells go back to their corresponding place on the rack
- Cable attachments are placed back on the storage shelf (not on the floor)
- Miscellaneous equipment is returned back to where it belongs

Together we can all have neat and organized gyms!

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Comment down below your favorite isolation exercise👇🏼

Isolation exercises are great for finishing off your muscles at the end of a workout. They don’t require as much stability or neural drive, so they are great exercises to hit when you are tired. We recommend hitting 1-3 of these at the end of each workout.

What qualifies as an isolation exercise? Exercises that use a single joint, a single muscle, or a small group of muscles (i.e your quads during leg extensions are actually 4 different muscles).

Some great examples of isolation exercises to finish your next workout with

Upper-Body:
✔️Delt Raises (Lateral, Rear, Front)
✔️Bicep Curls
✔️Tricep Extensions

Lower-Body
✔️Hip Abductions/Adductions (Inner/Outer Thighs)
✔️Leg Extensions
✔️Leg Curls
✔️Calf Raises
✔️Tibialis Raises

Let us know if you need help planning your next workout!

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Sound on for the full effect of this one🔊

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What are your thoughts on drop sets? Do you use them in your training? Let us know in the comments!

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Comment below your favorite hinge movement👇🏼

Hinge movements are any movement where the primary focus is a horizontal push back of the hips. Think about it like you’re trying to push your hips back to a wall.

This is the progression we suggest doing:
1️⃣ First master RDLs. You can start with these body-weight and move onto doing these with dumbbells, a kettlebell, or a barbell. We like starting people with these because they are great for working on control of the hinge motion. The focus should be on a slow movement back with the hips to dynamically stretch the glutes and the hamstrings.
2️⃣ Once you have mastered the RDLs, deadlifts will help you build up power and strength in your hinge. The focus with deadlifts is on the concentric portion of the movement, where you are driving forward with your hips and upward with the barbell. You can think about simply guiding the barbell back down to the ground, instead of slowly controlling it like your RDLs. This movement can also be done with kettlebells.
3️⃣ Lastly, we suggest learning good mornings. You can do these with a barbell or with a smith machine. These have a bit more low-back muscle emphasis than the RDLs or deadlifts. You won’t feel as much stretch in your hamstrings with these. The goal of these is to build up more low back tolerance to the hinge position, and more power from the back of the hinge position where it’s the hardest to bring the hips back forward. These translate nicely to the hinge you might use on a low-bar squat or a deadlift. We only like giving these to clients who have mastered their deadlifts and RDLs, since they they tend to put the back in a more vulnerable position if done incorrectly.

We have demonstration videos for all these hinge exercises on our Infinite Motion App on Trainerize. For as low as $19.99/month you can have a training program to follow, videos of us showing you how to do every exercise, and a workouts on demand library with tons of variety! See our website for more details!

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The squat is a non-negotiable movement for every day life. You NEED the ability to squat at all stages of your life. You will 100% need the ability to squat to pick things up off the ground, and you will always need to do that. If your legs work, do some squats!

Not everyone needs to be doing heavy barbell squats. For those with injuries and/or limited mobility, something as simple as a TRX band assisted squat may do the trick.

For those with injuries, doing assisted squats can help you practice the squat while fixing your improper movement patterns that are causing pain.

Or, for those who are limited in their mobility, the assisted squat can help you squat lower until you are ready to progress.

Only then should you add weight to the movement in some way. Start out with a goblet squat with a lighter weight if you’re not ready for the barbell. If your technique needs improvement, this is for you.

Squats are for everyone. Every single person we train does some form of a squat. These squat variation will vary depending on your goals and level of fitness.

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Tag us when you hit your next chin-up or pull-up PR from trying weighted ones😄

During this workout, I started with my body-weight and worked up from 5 lbs. for a set of 3 reps to 10 lbs for 2 sets of 2 reps. Afterwards I was able to hit 5 body-weight chin-ups, even though 3 of them felt pretty challenging when I warmed up.

A lot of women might feel intimidated to try weighted pull-ups or chin-ups since they might only be able to do a few body-weight ones. Just remember that it’s helpful to change up the weight that we are using on this exercise similar to any other exercise! I give you permission to start with the 2.5 lb. weight, even if it might feel silly. You might surprise yourself and be able to do more!

If you are still working on getting to your first body-weight pull-up or chin-up send us a message✉️We would love to help you get there!

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Share this with your gym partner as a reminder not to skip abs!

Try this core workout superset at the end of your next lift and let us know how it goes!

Exercise 1
Bird Dog Planks

SUPERSET

Exercise 2
Hanging Leg Raises

Repeat for 3 or 4 sets

Simpler alternatives for those exercises:

Bird Dog Planks:
- Basic front plank
- Bird Dog
- Dead Bug

Hanging Leg Raises:
- Captains chair leg raises
- Leg raises on the floor (straight legs or bent knees)
- Sit ups
- Crunches

For more detailed and personalized exercise routines please send us a message or visit InfiniteMotionCoaching.com

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These are some of the truths we try to teach all of our clients in order to break them free from common exercise and nutrition myths that are hindering their progress.

👉🏼Your dream body might be heavier than you think. A common goal of our clients is to lose weight…or so they think. In reality, a lot of people are working more towards body recomposition. This has much less to do with the weight on the scale, and more to do with the ratio of fat to muscle in your body. A lower body fat percentage will generally get people the body they are seeking, which may not include losing as much weight as people originally wanted to.

👉🏼You can lose weight without seeing a body composition change. Let’s say you were to lose 20 lbs. and 10 of those lbs. were muscle while the other 10 lbs. were fat. Your body fat percentage will not have changed at all, so you will not notice much of a difference in your physique. This is puzzling to people, since a lot of people are taught that weight loss is a good thing. In order to not lose muscle while losing weight, make sure to aim for 1g of protein per lb. if desired body weight. If this seems challenging, try for at least .8g, and work your way up.

👉🏼Doing crunches will not reduce belly fat. Doing crunches will help you build up your front abdominal muscles. If you want to be able to see these muscles, you will have to lose body fat. By prioritizing protein and weightlifting, while being in a slight calorie deficit, you can certainly achieve having more visible looking abs. However, we cannot spot reduce fat from a specific area of the body by performing an exercise with it.

👉🏼Cardio without weightlifting will not help you lose fat. If your goal is losing fat, then this goal should be paired with building muscle. If you prioritize building muscle, this will help boost your metabolism while doing activities like cardio. Without building muscle, you will have to eat a much smaller amount of calories to lose any body fat, which ends up being unsustainable for people longterm.

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Share this with your training partner who you deadlift with!

We recommend using a variety of rep ranges for your deadlifts, just like any other exercise. In this particular instance I am doing 3 sets of 2 with one additional AMRAP (as many reps as possible) set.

For deadlifts, the rep range we use for main working sets is generally 1-8 reps. Sometimes higher for a warm up or AMRAP set. Sets higher than 8 reps are usually reserved for our RDL training.

You can build strength in any rep range as long as you are applying progressive overload throughout your training program. Doing sets of 8-12 on your deadlifts isn’t wrong, just not our preference.

It is good to keep in mind that lower rep ranges are better for lifting heavier, and higher rep ranges are better for muscle hypertrophy. We use the deadlift to get stronger, and the RDL for muscle hypertrophy. Hence the choice of lower/higher rep ranges on each.

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Six years ago in November of 2018 I tore my ACL; a major stabilizing ligament in my knee. This event sent me into a major depression, but also fueled me to be the person I am today. I had never focused on weightlifting before this injury occurred. Six years later, it’s one of the major focuses of my life that I will forever be grateful for.

This event and the surgery that followed presented a host of different challenges, but I became more determined to build my body back up stronger than it was before.

In the first video, I was in early rehab stages post-surgery in 2019. The focus of this stage was to regain the ability to do simple things like engage my quad muscles. If you’ve had a knee surgery, you will know how difficult and painful those first few weeks post surgery are.

In the second video, I was about one year post surgery, but I was still very clearly imbalanced in muscle tone. My left thigh had a visibly smaller circumference than my right thigh. I also had an imbalance in my posture from relying on my right leg for so long.

Six years later, I feel much stronger. I am able to do deep squats with confidence at weights heavier than my body-weight. My left knee will never feel the same again, and I have a pretty high certainty that I have some amount of arthritis in it. It does still have pain from time to time, but I have a lot of muscle tone on my legs to support this joint when it acts up.

If you are going through a major injury right now, do not give up! Things will get better as long as you work hard to rehab and strengthen the injury site and its surrounding tissues.

If you would like to work on gaining strength and muscle back from where you have lost it due to an injury, please message to find out more about how you can get started with simple exercises and nutritional choices.

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Like the video for more gainz!

Try this to achieve a new high rep PR!

- Work up to 90% of your 1 Rep Max and do 1 rep. This will get your nervous system activated and you will be able to recruit more muscle fibers.

- You should do enough warm up sets to feel your muscles activated to prevent injury. You can do a couple high rep sets to get your technique down, and work up in weight doing 3 sets of 1-3 reps.

- Drop down to a lighter weight that you want to secure a new PR on. Do as many reps as possible (AMRAP). Get focused before your set and play a some that will pump you up.

- Dig deep and don’t stop until you got a new pr. If your technique is getting poor, call it quits and try again another day. A high rep PR is not worth getting injured for.

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Pull-ups and dips are both body-weight upper-body exercises that are difficult for most women to perform their first rep of.

Men tend to have wider shoulders compared to their body-size and more surface area for upper-body muscle, which gives their bodies better leverage during these exercises compared to women.

If you can’t do a dip or pull-up yet, there are lots of different exercises that you can do that don’t require as much weight as a prerequisite to perform:

For Pull-Ups:
✔️Scapular, Eccentric, and Assisted Pull-Ups
✔️Lat Pull Downs
✔️Reverse Bicep Curls

For Dips:
✔️Scapular, Assisted, and Seated Dips:
✔️Tricep Extensions

Other heavy compound upper-body movements will also help you build up your upper-body muscles to support pulling and pushing your body-weight during these movements.

This is something that Ilana is particularly passionate about with running her women’s weightlifting class and helping women of all ages feel strong and confident to work towards movements like these💕If you live in the Santa Cruz area, she would love to have you join this awesome group of women!

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Share this video with a friend who you would hit a drop set with🏋🏻‍♀️

Drop sets can be a useful tool to help you increase intensity when you don’t have a lot of time on your hands. Here’s how to do one:

1️⃣ Hit your last set of heavier weight
2️⃣ Don’t take any rest. Go and grab (or set) a weight that’s around 50-60% of the weight used on your heavier set.
3️⃣ Hit your drop set weight until failure

Make sure to tag us when you try this out on your next workout💪🏼

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Just in time for Halloween🎃Make sure to work on your zombie squats!🧟‍♀️

This movement is good for those who don’t have the shoulder mobility for a traditional front rack position.

Some other things this movement is helpful for:
✔️Core Stability: Just like with a goblet squat, having the weight in front of you presents a larger challenge for your core to remain stable, as opposed to a back squat.
✔️Shoulder Stability: This positioning forces you to use your lats, rotator cuff muscles, and serratus anterior to keep your shoulders in a still and stabilized position. If your shoulders aren’t stabilized, then the barbell will roll off your arms.
✔️Leg Strength: Although you will not be able to load the barbell up as much as your back squats, you will still be able to squat with a heavier weight than something like a goblet squat. For those who lack shoulder mobility to do any form of back squats, this movement could be helpful for them to be able to increase their squat weight.

Tag us if you try this unusual barbell movement out! If you need more guidance, send us a message✉️

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