Fitness Tips & Tricks
FREE STRETCHING CLINIC
Instructor: Amanda Crooks
Location: Fitness Area behind ellipticals (old small group training space)
Description: Flexibility is an important component to fitness! Try a free 30-minute Stretching Clinic with Amanda Crooks. Participants will learn how to stretch and foam roll, to become flexible, and to aid in recovery. No sign-up necessary. Meet in the open fitness space behind the ellipticals.
Dates & Times
Wednesday 7/10: 7:00 am, Noon
Wednesday 7/17: Noon, 5:30 pm
Bench Press & Push Up
Bench Press
Muscles Targeted: This exercise targets the muscles of your chest, triceps, and shoulders.
Execution: Lie supine on bench. Dismount barbell from rack over upper chest using wide oblique overhand grip. Lower weight to mid-chest. Press bar upward until arms are extended. Repeat.
Push Up
Muscles Targeted: This exercise targets the muscles of your chest, triceps, and shoulders.
Execution: Lie prone on floor with hands slightly wider than shoulder width. Raise body up off floor by extending arms with body straight. Keeping body straight, lower body to floor by bending arms until elbows reach a 90-degree angle. Push body up until arms are extended. Repeat.
Squat
Muscles Targeted: This exercise targets the muscles of your glutes and quadriceps.
Execution: Squat down by bending knees forward while allowing hips to bend back behind, keeping back straight and knees pointed same direction as feet. Descend until thighs are just past parallel to floor. Squat up by extending knees and hips until legs are straight. Return and repeat.
Deadlift
Muscles Targeted: This exercise targets the muscles of your glutes and hamstrings.
Execution: With feet flat beneath bar squat down and grasp bar with shoulder width or slightly wider over hand or mixed grip. Lift bar by extending hips and knees to full extension. Pull shoulders back at top of lift if rounded. Return by bending knees forward slightly while allowing hips to bend back behind, keeping back straight and knees pointed same direction as feet.