How to Use Free Weights

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NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Kristen Kennedy, demonstrates how to work out your legs, biceps, and shoulders with free weights. She shows us how to do a "squat curl to overhead press".

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Working Out with Free Weights
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Kristen Kennedy (NASM Certified Personal Trainer): With a lot of my clients these days, I tend to go to either free weights or with the cable machine. So I have an example here of doing a workout, instead of going to a machine and kind of restricting your movement, you can hit a lot of muscles at the exact same time.

So, it's called a squat curl to overhead press. It's a lot of words but you're working a lot more and you're actually burning more calories. So you're going to set your feet right up under your hips, toes are forward and the weight is going to go onto your heels. So feel like you want to pull all that weight into your heels.

Hands by your sides and now all you're going to do is drop down into a squat, then you're going to curl up as you lift and then an overhead press. So you're going down, and then drop, squat, curl and overhead press.

So you're getting basically a leg workout, you got biceps and then you have the shoulders. And you got a great workout from just doing that instead of just doing one muscle at a time.

With this name, with the squat curl overhead press you want to have about 10 to 15 reps, depending on what your goals are. Say that you want to build more muscle then you want to keep the reps, kind of small, between eight and ten. If you're wanting just to lengthen and tone then hit about 15 to 20 reps and then you got three sets of those. So three sets of 15 and you're good.

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