Exerbabble for 12-19-6

I feel my lunges all in my outer glutes. Squats in my inner glutes. Dead lifts in outer glutes plus a bit higher to lower outer back. Quads are never involved as far as any soreness. Before I was in shape, doing stair flights with weights I would feel it some in my quads, a lot in my calves. Now I don’t get sore from that.

as to front squats, the idea is good, but my wrists suffer a lot even from the rear squats, I’d never be able to distribute the weight of the bar on my clavicles and wrists in the front, not to mention getting 65# up that high in the first place – you underestimate how weak I am! I’ll just have to bite the bullet and enlist my husband’s help and do the squats in the evening (when I’m not that motivated, unfortunately).

I gave up doing calf raises (they weren’t doing much) after I discovered how sore I got doing flights of stairs with 50# of weight. If you have access to stairs – try it. Like with a weight belt or back pack or something, unless you can carry that much in your hands. Or however much you can manage (I guess more than me!). Doing every other stair if you can maintain balance. You will feel it in your calves more than anywhere else.

ok boss! I’ll try those front squats and let you know!!!

thanks, that picture helped envision. nice to see a woman doing it too

I have trouble doing lunges at all. The women in my workout videos, they lunge down so far that their knee touches the floor. I simply can’t do that. I’d never get up! I know you’re supposed to keep proper form and all that…but what if you can only do like one lunge with proper form? Same thing with pushups. I cannot do 12 of those right in row like they do in workout videos and keep proper form. Simply can’t do it. So I end up doing the harder things sort of half assed, in my own little way. *shrug* It still hurts, and still feels like my legs/arms are burning afterwards.