Fitness and Weight Loss: Good luck walking tomorrow after this leg workout

Doing partial reps of squats and split squats will be a new stimulus for your leg muscles, spurring more gains.

This fresh routine will challenge your lower body in a whole new way

Trainer: Hannah Eden, founder of the PumpFit Club, a personal group training facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Benefit: Doing partial reps of squats and split squats will be a new stimulus for your leg muscles, spurring more gains. Plus, wrapping a miniband around your legs during the exercises better engages your glutes and hip rotators.

Directions:

Perform the following exercises for the prescribed amount of time in the order shown:

1. Miniband lower pulse squat, 30 seconds

2. Miniband upper pulse squat, 30 seconds

3. Miniband squat, 30 seconds

Rest 30 seconds.

Perform the following exercises for the prescribed amount of time in the order shown:

1. Miniband single-leg lower pulse split squat, right leg forward, 30 seconds

2. Miniband single-leg upper pulse split squat, right leg forward, 30 seconds

3. Miniband single-leg split squat, right leg forward, 30 seconds

Rest 30 seconds.

Perform the following exercises for the prescribed amount of time in the order shown:

1. Miniband single-leg lower pulse split squat, left leg forward, 30 seconds

2. Miniband single-leg upper pulse split squat, left leg forward, 30 seconds

3. Miniband single-leg split squat, left leg forward, 30 seconds

Rest 30 seconds.

That’s 1 round. Do 3 rounds.

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