"Staying in shape / Lower Body Muscle Exercises".

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Hello fitness enthusiast and the novice, it's once again a great week to further our fitness journey, as usual it's my pleasure to welcome y'all to my blog. Staying fit, healthy and agile is always the goals and through consistency, determination and discipline we achieve greatness.

It's essential to exercise the lower body muscles while exercising the upper body muscles and while strengthening the core strength. The past two weeks was about the Upper body exercise and core, interestingly we're targeting the upper body muscles

To exercise the lower body muscles, our fitness teacher have come with a three crucial programs: these are Squats for the entire muscle group, Calf curls, Thigh or quad curls. Let's see how adaptive I'm in this program.

Squats for the entire muscle group.

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Squat is one of the most intensive lower body muscle exercise that trigger the quadriceps, thign, glute and hamstring. The outcome of squat exercises is superb as it develop the glutes, stronger bones and more.

To execute squat exercises, i maintain a balance standing position with my two arms at the level of my chest, position my legs a bit wide apart with core strength engage, then squat till my knee rotate angle 90 and i retune to the starting position. continuously i executed 20 reps in two sets with a 10 sec rest.

Calf curls.

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Here's another crucial exercise for the lower body muscles exercise. This exercise triggers both the ankle and the ligament in the lower body muscles, if perform well it trigger all the muscles in the overall lower body.

To execute this exercise; just like squat position, you maintain a standing position with shoulder wide apart, place both palm at the waist region and hip up the heel and return to the starting position. continuously i executed 20 reps in two sets with a 10 sec rest.

Thigh or quad curls..

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Thign or quad exercise is a type of exercise that requires a sitting posture, probably in a chair. Since it is a sitting exercise, it trigger the muscles in the quadriceps and the hamstring. The execution process is simple but intense as the repetitions increase.

To execute this exercise, a sitting position is require, while placing the both arms in the chair and engaging core strength, I lift up the leg as much as I can. continuously i achieve 20 reps in two sets with a 10 sec rest. Below is S tabular form that showcase my performance.

ExerciseRepetitionsRestRepetitions
Squats.20 reps.10 seconds.20 reps.
Calf curls.20 rep.10 seconds.20 reps.
Thigh or quad curls.20 rep.10 seconds.20 rep.

Base on the above performance, I present to you a video compilation of the three exercises I executed, the number of reps and the seconds i took to rest.

In your own words, tell us about your experience and how you felt when doing the exercises.

From my experience, squat is a tough lower body exercise and it's always challenging to complete a given reps and set. Having to squat down and raise up in a certain amount of reps have me experience an Intense pains in my overall hamstring, knee and quadricep. It is only discipline that helps me when it comes to this squat exercise.

Calf curl seems easier in the eyes and initial you start it but it comes complicated as you increase the level of reps. While executing this exercise; I felt a bit pains in my ankle and feet, the secret is the higher the reps the tougher the pains.

The position of thigh or quad curls is friendly but the raising up of legs to the limit isn't friendly; I executed only 40, 20 in each sets and the pains in my hamstring was visible, it wasn't really Intense though.

In conclusion; when it comes to exercise, consistency make perfect. Lower body exercise sometimes seems complicated especially when the number of reps increases but regular training do makes it a bit easy. This week programs have been a great week so far, I wonder what next week will look like.

I'm inviting @goodybest @bossj23 and @nsijoro to join me in this learning challenge.
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 9 hours ago 

Hola amigo, tu entrenamiento se ve reflejado en tu condición física, lo estás haciendo excelente, trabajar la parte baja del cuerpo es vital para el equilibrio general del cuerpo y poder con las actividades de la vida diaria.
Te felicito, continua trabajando en tu bienestar.
Saludos, te deseo mucho éxito.