Strengthen Your Core and Elevate Your Heart Rate With This Cable Back Workout!

Back Workout

Lat Pulldown

The lat pulldown is a multi-joint exercise that involves main mover the latissimus dorsi, the largest back muscle, which extends down each side of your spine. The biceps, rear delts, rhomboids and traps are also syngistically during the pulldown exercise.

Close Grip Pulldown

Great exercise to target the primarily lats, the traps (middle and lower) and the biceps. Secondary, it uses the teres major, posterior deltoid and the pectoralis major. Many women are afraid to lift heavy for their upper body. However, developing your back create a v-taper making your waist appear smaller. It also increase your strength to later take on pull-ups and lift things easier around the house.

Squat Row

A compound total body exercise that trains the mid and lower back, legs and glutes while elevating the heart rate. Make sure to use your legs as you stand up with the close grip handle in front of your body with arms extended. Execute the exercise by squating down while keeping the arms extended, use you legs to stand up while bring the close grip handle close to your belly button. Squat back down with the arms extended to complete one rep and repeat!

Swimmers

Swimmers are a different variation to the Lying Back Extension (Superman). This exercise strengthens the core and stretches the lower back. Adding movement to it elevates the heart rate. This exercise can be done in repetitions or timed.

To build muscle: increase weight and lower reps to 8-10.

To tone up: lower weight and increase reps to 12-15.

Muscle building Chest and Back Workout

Chest

3 - 4 Sets

Chest press machine

8 - 10 reps (heavy weight)

Incline dumbbell chest press

10 - 12 reps (medium weight)

Fly machine

12 - 15 reps (light - medium weight)

Dips

8 - 12 reps (body weight)

Back

3 - 4 sets

Lat Pulldown
10 - 12 reps

Reverse-grip lat pull up

10 - 12 reps

Bent-over dumbbell row

8 - 10 reps (heavy weight)

Back Extension (Floor)
3 - 4 sets
30 seconds - 1 min.

Unstable/Stable Chest and Back Superset Workout

Chest and Back Supersets:

3 - 4 Sets

Body Weight Exercises: 15 - 20 reps

Weighted Exercises: 10 - 12 reps

Push-ups

Lat Pulldown

Incline push-ups

Bent-over barbell row (over-hand grip)

Decline push-ups

Straight-arm pulldown

Diamond push-up

Back extension (floor)

Arms and Shoulders Pyramid Workout

Arms and Shoulders Pyramid Workout

Biceps

3 - 4 Sets

EZ Bar 21's

7 reps low curls

7 reps high curls
7 reps complete curls

Dumbbell Hammer Curls

12 - 15 reps

Seated Incline Bicep Curls, Outward

8 - 10 reps

Triceps

3 - 4 Sets

Tricep Push-ups

To Failure

Dumbbell Overhead Tricep Extension

12 - 15 reps

Seated Tricep Dip Machine

8 - 10 Reps

Shoulders

3 - 4 Sets

Dumbbell Upright Rows

15 Reps

Lateral Dumbbell Raises

12 reps

Seated Bent-Over Lateral Raises

10 reps

Introduction of My Brand New Blog!

Hi there! If you don't know who I am, my name is Candace M. Foxx. The owner of Fit Science LLC and original creator of the Fit Science LLC Blog. I had to open up a new blog because my main email for Fit Science LLC was hacked by an ex-employee a couple years back and I have never been able to gain full control over it thanks to Google. I have sent them many messages to prove my identity, but they still have not done anything to fix the situation. Even though both emails used for my original blog has my pictures on both! So I can post on my older blog, but I can't do extra things like add authors, other advertisements or change the set up. On the bright side, I decided to start this one called Foxx Fitness Fanatic which is what I am. I love fitness, eating healthy and helping my clients reach their fitness goals.

I'm also a community leader in my local city, McAllen, Tx. I network with many women's and business networking groups. Here are a few I am associated with: Hispanic Women's Networking Group of the RGV (HWNT Membership Chair), FemCity RGV (Business Member), Mission Chamber of Commerce (Business Member), Rio Grande Chamber of Commerce (Member), NHPO-RGV (past Marketing Chair [2 years] and IT Chair [4 months] Member). I organize 2 5ks a year to help my community learn to be more aware of why it is important to live a healthy lifestyle throughout your life. Spring into Fitness is going on its 2nd year and the Fall into Fitness has been going for 5 years now. Each 5k raises partial funds to donate to local nonprofits in my local community.  

I also compete as a Professional Figure and Fit Body Competitor with the World Natural Bodybuilding Federation (WNBF) and Naturally Fit Federation (NFF). I will soon be opening up my opportunities in the competition world by competing in other pro natural federations and competing internationally! These federations are lie detector and drug tested federations. I do not believe in using steroids, human growth hormone or any other substances banned by these federations and WADA. I personally feel I would be a hypocrite telling people who to be healthy while I am doing or promoting illegal substances that ruin the body and organs.   

Bodybuilding saved me from many evils like depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and bulimia. So why would I save my life from destruction only to go back and destroy all that I have worked for? 

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