
2️⃣If your main goal with fitness is solely to get lean, you’re missing the point entirely. To market the idea that anyone can achieve lower levels of body fat and have an easy time doing so is misleading and unethical. So even though I would say that yes, being lean is effortless FOR ME, I fully get that it is not the case for many. Some people are predisposed to carry a little more body fat (and further, carry body fat in different areas of their body), and also hunger, appetite, non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT), and even enjoyment of exercise are largely rooted in our genetics (as well as environment, of course - this is a complex topic that I won’t dive into here). Because here are some things I’ve learned since then: 1️⃣Getting and staying lean comes much easier to some than to others. Let me say that I'm so glad I did not move in that direction. My plans included creating a product/e-book and making that message a primary component of my brand.
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I had started learning about the role of habits in long-term behavior change - thus, I reasoned that if I could teach people how to master the right habits, everyone could learn how to stay effortlessly lean for life. Drop more Q’s below.Ī post shared by Shona Vertue on at 1:03pm PSTĪbout 5 years ago, I thought up the term “effortlessly lean” for what I believed at the time was everyone’s goal in fitness. It can also be performed with towels on a wooden floor or sliders on carpet. Swiss Ball Leg Curl: This knee flexing exercise burns the hamstrings, but also requires that you can stabilise your pelvis and spine with core and glute muscles. Just make sure you place the foot of your working leg further forward if you want to emphasise the hamstring work here. SL Hip Thrust: Both a glute and hamstring exercise as it is loading hip extension. Stiff Leg KB Deadlift: I’m mobile in my hamstrings and in my hips, so I can maintain a neutral spine, go into deep hip flexion and keep my legs relatively straight - loading up my hamstrings nicely as I deadlift. 2. Weak hamstrings can effect the knee joint AND the hip joint causing problems pain and injury. The exercises shown here actually work your butt too but have an emphasis on the hamstrings: 1. Particularly given that they attach to the tibia and fibula bones (your leg bones below the knee). Your hamstrings cover two joints and when you complain about your niggling knee pain, your hamstrings could well be contributing. The more you know about your body, the more you can make educated choices about what to do with it.

The heroin-chic look of the 90’s with zero muscularity on a girls body (particularly her legs), is not conducive for healthy, moving, well-functioning joints - to me, that’s anti-feminist. Your hamstrings (a family of 3) help to mainly extend the hip and flex the knee, but they have other jobs too including external rotation of leg (biceps femoris) internal rotation at the knee joint (semimebranosis and semitendinosus) Ok but why am I including all this anatomical information? 1.


Home Exercises for Knee Issues | I’m a fan of the more muscular trend for women for one major reason and it’s not about aesthetics, it’s about function. Given that the muscles of the posterior thigh, particularly your hamstring family effect two muy importantes joints for getting around town (the hip and the knee) I think it’s also may importantes that they are strong.
