Lower Body Strength

Lower Body Strength

If you are looking to build muscle, these workouts will show you how to add resistance to the large muscles of the lower extremities. Target the thighs, hamstrings, calves, glutes, hips, and feet. Experience workouts targeting one or more areas at a time, with multiple sets and repetitions to help build muscle. Muscles will help the knee, hip, ankle, and joints of the foot to become more stable, including the trunk and spine, which will be working in nearly every exercise! Modifications will be given throughout so that you can progress safely with confidence. Free weights, therabands, and thigh bands will be used, but they can be eliminated when needed.

When adding resistance, you may notice that your range of motion changes, new areas need to be controlled, and that it will take some time to hone proper form. Never let the resistance overpower the exercise. Choose a weight that you can safely perform 10-15 repetitions before fatigue sets in. Remember that it is the quality of each individual repetition that counts!

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Lower Body Strength
  • Video 484 | Quadriceps Builder (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    The goal of this workout is hypertrophy/growth of the muscles of the quadriceps that cross the front of the knee and hip. We will accomplish this with a high repetition routine using resistance that allows us to engage or "squeeze" our muscles for better contractions. Work the quadricep muscles...

  • Video 188 | Lower Body Strength Circuit (30 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk

    In this video, you will move from one exercise from the next. There will be periods of time where the exercise is more challenging followed by periods of recovery. This circuit strength routine is choreographed to work complementary muscle groups and joint positions so that you can keep moving!...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Push - Legs Resistance Training

    Push Workouts are often combined with Pulling workouts and Leg workouts on consecutive days to ensure that different body parts are targeted each day. Performing workouts like this, each body part gets a "rest" so that we can get great results.

    In this workout, we target many chest, triceps, ...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Pull - Legs Resistance Training

    Pull Workouts are often combined with Pushing workouts and Leg workouts on consecutive days to ensure that different body parts are targeted each day. Performing workouts like this, each body part gets a "rest" so that we can get great results.

    In this workout, we target many back, biceps, le...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Lower Body and Foot Intrinsics

    The feet deal with ground forces pushing up into them and the bodyweight pushing down onto them. In this therapeutic routine, experience standing and seated exercises for the lower leg and foot. A thigh band will be used to add resistance in hip and foot exercises. Be prepared to explore your ...

  • Video 454 | FIS Legs and Glutes (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This workout incorporates a chair to add a lot of challenge and fun to our leg and glute training. Chair workouts are often thought of as easier, but not here! Having a chair for one-leg balance exercises like single leg squats and deadlifts actually help you work harder, since falling is not a...

  • Video 208 | Compound Leg Workout (40 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Compound lifts are any strengthening exercise where you’re using more than one muscle group at the same time. These exercises are efficient, since they work several areas at once. In this way you can get more benefits in a shorter period of time. The lower body exercises in this workout will al...

  • Video 159 | Abs & Glutes (30 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk

    Using a weighted dumbbell and an elastic band, this fitness routine targets the rectus abdominis, obliques, transverse abdominis, as well as muscles in the hips. Practice exercises from the floor as well as in standing for maximal strengthening benefits. This routine provides a logical progress...

  • Video 120 | Glute Isolation Workout (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Strengthen your gluteal muscles using an elastic band to target motions such as hip abduction, hip extension, and hip flexion. This thirty minute workout uses a combination of standing and floor exercises for muscle isolation and integration

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  • Video 110 | Stronger Legs Dumbbell Workout (45 Minute) with Lauren Eirk

    Some of the best free weight exercises are for the lower body. Experience a muscle activating, thorough warm-up to visit your range of motion followed by many variations of the squat, lunge, dead-lift, and bridge. This sequence uses unilateral and bilateral variations with creative positioning ...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Lower Body and Abs

    This class is a different kind of format, alternating between some highly effective lower body exercises using dumbbells and core training exercises. Leg exercises can be quite taxing, so adding the core work between each movement will give you a chance to recover! We will work the entire lowe...

  • Video 242 | Leg Day (45 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk

    This workout begins with a rhythmic warm-up followed by a mini-ball segment to work the lower body. Next, practice many powerful leg exercises using dumbbells. You will get plenty of cues and modifications as we move with a comfortable pace to give you a joint-friendly effective strength routin...

  • Video 257 | Legs & Glutes Supersets (45 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk

    This resistance training workout will explore the "superset" or long set of exercises using dumbbells and a stability ball. Supersets can increase the difficulty of the workout and improve muscle gain since you can get more done in the time you have. Performing exercises with similar muscle gro...

  • Video 072 | Lower Body Workout with Lauren Eirk (60 Minute Workout)

    Video 072 | Lower Body Workout with Lauren Eirk is a 60 minute resistance training routine designed to strengthen muscles that attach into the knee, hip, ankle, and foot. Practice various squat, lunge, and bridge variations with proper mechanics and directional cues to improve the responsiveness...

  • Video 266 | FIS Legs (30 Minute workout) with Lauren Eirk

    This FIS Focus Video is targeted to the legs. We begin with a rhythmic warm-up to address range of motion and energy levels. Next, enjoy some complex lower body exercises using dumbbells. The Yoga blocks will change a lot of the mechanics of these exercises to alter joint forces and muscle inv...

  • Video 289 | Stronger Hips and Thighs (45 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk

    This workout begins with a standing warm up for the lower body, then moves to some great inner / outer hip exercises using the thigh band. Then we move into some compound leg exercises with variations on the squat, lunge, hip and forward bends using dumbbells and a thigh band to strengthen the h...

  • Live Event | Killer Quads, Hamstrings, and Glutes (60 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    This workout targets bigger muscles of the lower body by performing several isolated and integrated leg exercises using bodyweight and dumbbells for resistance. We are targeting the muscles are essential for our overall function, as they are responsible for fighting gravity, supporting our trunk...

  • Video 319 | FIS Lower Leg and Foot (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    The foot is truly the foundation of all movement. In this therapeutic routine, experience standing and seated exercises for the lower leg and foot. You will need a chair for seated exercises and to be able to focus on the feet in standing balance work. A circular band will be used to add resis...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Stronger Legs and Abs (60 Minutes)

    This lower body workout will help you keep your lower body muscles strong and responsive. You will need a thigh band for hip exercises (or tie a TheraBand in a circle) and dumbbells to challenge the big muscles of the upper and lower legs. All levels welcome.

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  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Stronger Glutes

    This workout includes a standing warm-up followed by a core training section designed to strengthen the hips while activating the surrounding muscles of the trunk and spine. This section is followed by over 40 minutes of killer floor work exercises to train the gluteus maximus, minimus, and medi...

  • Live Event | Squat Formula (60 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    Sitting is not the same as squatting. Not only that, people often struggle with sitting and standing using control. In this workout we will break down the specific joint motions associated with squatting. Using Dumbbells and a thigh band, go from isolating these motions to integrating them in o...

  • Video 376 | Foot and Foundations (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This workout starts with several intrinsic foot exercises to strengthen the bottom of the feet. Next, transition into some of the major muscles of the lower leg, working on plantar flexors and dorsiflexors using a chair.

    As we take an integrated approach to strengthening the feet, we will be ...

  • Video 378 | Balanced Lower Body Workout (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    In this balanced strength training workout, we will practice variations on the squat, lunge, and deadlift to give hamstrings and glutes get as much attention as the quadriceps and hip flexors.

    This workout begins with a brief warm-up, followed by multi-joint compound movements with dumbbells, t...

  • Video 383 | Glutes Express (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This Express workout packs in 15 minutes of the best gluteal exercises using dumbbells for resistance. Many exercises that are thought to target this area, but it takes strategic set up and focus to make bring the glutes to center stage.

    Start on the floor and progress to several standing exe...