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Squat Series with Jeff Episode 3 | Beaufort Fitness

Published by admin on April 1, 2022 | Leave a response

Nothing beats the squat. Welcome back to these squat series y’all! This is Jeffrey. Your coach here at EarthFIT we’ll be going over another squat variation for y’all today. We got a Kettlebell Squat. I’m sure most of y’all have done these in our trainings. This is where we keep our kettlebells to the side here while we’re doing our squats, and implement these about once a week here. Now, the difference in these, we’re still gonna be hitting this along with our back squats, our entire posterior chain, all those muscles that are gonna be worked when we’re doing our Kettlebell Squats, we’re gonna be doing those glutes, hamstrings, calves, even our quads here on the front side and including our lower back. Now, along with those normal back squats, these benefits include increased mobility, increased stability. We’re gonna have stronger joints, and we’re gonna make sure that our core is even stronger so that way makes us even more stable at the end of the day.

Now for our kettlebell squats here, just gonna line up feet are gonna be about shorter width apart right here in front of our kettlebells. We’re gonna make sure that our chest is up and our back is flat here. So when we go down out and grab those kettlebells, we come up into a power position. Now we’re gonna have our kettlebells by the side. Still gonna have our chest up high here in front of us, gonna have a proud chest. Now the shoulders are gonna be back. When we come down, those shoulders are still gonna stay back here. So that way we can have that weight going back on our hips, drive down through our heels and coming up here. Now there’s a few things that can go wrong here.

When we’re doing a kettlebell squat. We wanna make sure that those knees aren’t caving in to try to overcompensate ourselves.

I wanna make sure that our back doesn’t start to round as we come up using the appropriate weight can help with that. Make sure that we’re going down correctly here for our squats. Now these Kettlebell squats can give us all of our awesome benefits for our normal squats. We implement these in our ratings. It’s a little bit easier to use a lower weight, and they’re a little bit more stable for you on the sides. So it’s a lot more natural for your body instead of having that weight on our backs. I just wanna thank you all for tuning in again. Y’all wanna look out for another video for our squat series. Thank y’all for tuning in.

-EarthFIT Coach Jeff

Squat Series with Jeff Episode 2 | Beaufort Fitness

Published by admin on March 18, 2022

Nothing beats a squat. Welcome to episode 2 of Jeffrey Squat Series. Today, we’re gonna be doing back squats. I’m sure you’ve seen this rack and I’m sure you’ve done a squat here at the gym before. Well, just gonna go over some basics here, just to show you how important and how awesome back squatting is. Not just back squatting. We’re all squatting in general here. So with back squats, we’re gonna be targeting our entire posterior chain here. It’s gonna start from our lower back all the way down the bottom of our legs, but we’re still hitting our main leg muscles here. Still gonna be hitting our hammies, still gonna be hitting our quads, still gonna be hitting our glutes, calves and hip flexors here as well. Now, starting off, we’re gonna essentially do what we did with our bodyweight squat that we did in the first episode.

So what we’re gonna start off with is feet are gonna be shoulder width apart, you’re gonna drop underneath here. Go ahead and gently have the barbell right here on our back. Your toes are gonna be aligned, straightforward, just like they were with our body weight squat. And we’ll go ahead and stand up here. You’ll take a step back. So that way we’re not hitting our hooks here on our squat rack. And then once again, we’re gonna get our hips back and drop that load down the back of our legs here all the way back up. And we wanna make sure that we’re going all the way down to our 90 degrees here. Gonna have that 90 degree with our legs parallel to the ground and you’re gonna come back up. Now. We’ve got a common few common mistakes here. First one is gonna be that lack of depth, not going down all the way. (please see the video)

We wanna make sure we get a full range of motion with that 90 degrees, butt all the way down to the floor, full range of motion. And then the next one would be maybe our knees caving in a little bit here. We wanna make sure that we’re driving all the way up here instead of having our knees come in to assist, that’s gonna increase the risk of injury and just not gonna be doing it correctly to make sure that we target the correct muscle groups. Now, of course, the last common mistake would be your chest dropping a little bit. It’s gonna be dropping in putting that weight, unnecessary weight on your back as you go down. So you got three different, common mistakes that we can make, but we’re gonna eliminate here. So that way we can include a back squat into our repertoire.

And I’m sure that you’ve probably seen this set up in the gym already. If you see these set up for our workouts during the days, you can always come over here and maybe do a few different, few different sets before the workout starts. That way we activate our glutes. We activate our leg muscles, because nothing beats the squat and all the benefits that it can do. So once again, y’all, this is our back squat here. This is episode 2 of Jeffrey Squat Series, just make sure that we’re applying our knowledge here into our next workouts and trainings.

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Squat Series with Jeff Episode 1 | Beaufort Fitness

Published by admin on February 8, 2022

Nothing beats a squat. This is Jeffrey! I’m one of the new coaches here at EarthFIT, I’m gonna be doing a new series called the Squat Series. I’ll be explaining different kinds of squats for you all in throughout. Probably about a seven part series here. I’m doing back squats, front squats, bodyweight squats, all different variations because nothing beats a squat and its benefits. First squat I’ll go over today, along with just some ins and outs with squatting is just gonna be a bodyweight. squat. First thing we want to talk about here is what muscles are gonna be targeted here.

So you got your hammies,

you got your glutes,

you got your quads

then you got your calves.

You got your hips as well, too. Your hip flexors… all those are gonna be targeted here. So all the main muscles that are in your legs are gonna be… we won’t say smoked, but they’re gonna be worked out here in your , as far as your squat workout goes.

Now there’s so many different benefits for squatting – to get some bigger, stronger legs. You work on your mobility, you work on your strength, your posture, even just as far as injury prevention, you’re gonna decrease that, drop that risk. Now the biggest thing here, as far as lining up for your squat, you’re gonna have your feet about shorter width apart here, and then we’re gonna have toes pointed out. So each toes are gonna be pointed towards you right there. And then we’re gonna have our chest up here and then we’re gonna stick those hips back and drop those hips down. As we go down all the way, stopping at parallel. See right here, you’re gonna have a 90 degree angle… A 90 degree angle, and then we’re gonna come back up here and squeeze the glutes right at the top.

So this is just a simple bodyweight squat y’all. This is what’s gonna start us off in our squat series. Just adding these ins, these simple movements, such as a squat, maybe a couple times a week during your workout, it’s gonna increase everything for you. As far as mobility, joint protection, even your strength, your legs are gonna look bigger. We’re not all trying to have massive legs, but it’s a nice benefit to have strength there, especially when you get older. So just to recap, y’all this is gonna be the first video here of our squat series, just a simple bodyweight squat to start out, and then we’re gonna move into bigger, better, and add some more weight here on our back and on the front here as well. So thank you all for tuning in. Look forward to the next episode. Once again, this is Jeffrey Squat Series.

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