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Be Well: Resistance Band Workout for Lower Body

Welcome back to be. Well, time now for our fitness for. That's right. And we are continuing to work with Rocky all week. She's from Equinox and we are continuing with bands. But now we're gonna change the part of the body that we're working. Yeah, we'll work lower body today. Ok. So once again with the mini band, our good friend, the mini band, which you don't expect to be so challenging, but it is. So we're gonna stand with our feet about shoulder with a part, ok? And we're just going to clasp our hands together praying that it ensued. But you do want to put a little pressure into your hands to activate your chest and your core. And as you sit back into your heels to squat, applying a little bit of pressure into your hands will engage your core a little bit more and it will stop you from feeling it. Some people will feel this in their lower back, especially if they're not properly warmed up. What about our knees? We want our knees to stay behind our toes, sit, sit back like you're looking for a seat. Ok. So all the way down and up and now for people who have difficulty where the band's always rolling up on them and they have issues with it. Flipping. What's the fix the fix for that is keeping your knees apart and in line over your toes, your band will roll if you're not keeping tension. Ok. So that's when it starts to slide. So, yeah. Well, right here, let's test that out. Ok. So we're going to take it down into the squat and let's just step out right and left, step out right and left. Now, if you were to bring your feet too close together and the band would lose tension, that's when it would start to roll. So you always wanna come all the way back when you're stepping out just halfway. Ok? And so right now, this is also getting like the sides of feeling in the outer thighs. Should we go as low as you can? It's your own range of motion. But again, you want to make sure that your knees are not coming forward, you always want to pull the weight back into your heels. And it's like you're sitting over a stool or a chair and now we're holding that as we have a conversation, you're moving. All right. What's next? What's next? We can go into a hinge, right? Because the squat is a lower body push. We wanna come into a lower body pull. Ok. So we can take out hands behind the head elbows, back, shoulders down. I wanna lead with the chin and chest again. Keeping your feet about shoulder with the part like a dead. Yes, exactly. And from this hip hinge, we're going to start stepping back and then stepping in with one leg. So step it back, step it in, step it back, step it in. You're gonna start to feel a little more engagement in that standing leg. Yes. And what about our backsides? You'll be squeezing it at some point, squeezing it absolutely. On the part of the, you wanna really anchor that leg and if you feel like you have the balance or you want to try and challenge yourself, you can start to float that back leg. Yeah. Bring it up as far as you can take the point set up. So, and this is really great for our butt and you now. Yes. Yes, exactly. So if your band rolled it all like mine because I lost a little tension there, we can just fix it, fix it, stop what you do, stop what you're doing, fix it, get it back because otherwise it hurts and we can do a little abduction and abduction here. So once again, if you need something to balance on, you could always use a chair or anything. Ok. Do I want to hit the floor on the bottom there or not so much? So you can just tap down lightly? But if you can, you can float it and pulse it a little bit faster. Now, is this more inside or outside of our leg? Where are you feeling it? I think more on the outside.