Quick Lower Body Warm-up
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Summary
Focus on movement prep, joint mobility, and light activation. Should feel slightly elevated heart rate and warm muscles, but not fatigued.
Exercises
Bodyweight Squat builds your lower-body muscles that specifically activate muscles like the hamstrings, quadriceps, glutes, and calf muscles. Doing squats can help you prepare for other strength-training exercises like deadlifts.
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Hip Circles are an excellent way to target the glutes—especially the glute medius. The move, a variation of the fire hydrant butt exercise, work your outer hip and gluteus medius, a small hip adductor muscle on the outer side of the pelvis that supports your hip and rotational movements of the thigh.
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Bodyweight Walking Lunge strengthens the leg muscles as well as the core, hips, and glutes. It helps to increase flexibility and loosen up your hips and hamstrings. This can help improve posture and balance, which can be beneficial to athletes, casual exercisers, and fitness novices alike.
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Goblet Squat works all the major muscle groups of the lower body. It helps strengthen the muscles, prevents injury, and aids fat loss from the lower body and belly. It engages and helps tone the powers of the core, back, forearms, and to an extent, the shoulders and upper back.
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