Heather Dees is a Top 5 IFBB Figure International and Top 4 IFBB Figure Olympia champion. She is a Species Nutrition Elite sponsored athlete as well as TMarie Suits Sponsored Athlete. She is a Figure and Bikini Coach, Cosmetologist and Master Esthetician. For more with Heather, check out her “Training Journals” online with FitnessRx for Women.
This week, I want to put you through a great abdominal workout! When it comes to ab muscles, you need to train them in a similar way to all your other muscle groups—excessive ab workouts is not the way to go.
Follow my quad routine for maximum muscle hypertrophy, and I'll give you the exact weight I used during my quad workout. You can adjust weight to avoid injury, but if you like to train heavy, load it up! ;) You will experience some serious delayed onset muscle soreness 24 to 48 hours later! Woo woo!
Today we are going to get an intense hamstring workout in. By following these two exercises, performing 7 sets each, your hamstrings will be smoked! Hamstring development is so important for a balanced leg and symmetrical physique.
It’s time to train some legs! I want to discuss training quads today. We've gone through quads before but there are so many ways to change up your routine! You don't want to get stuck in a rut and lose your drive to train hard and heavy.
This week we are training back in giant sets! The key to giant sets is not the amount of weight being lifted, but the quality of contraction and ensuring that as much blood as possible is being driven into the muscle.
So I am going to step a little out of the norm today and talk about an awesome way to get some great arm and shoulder training— with boxing! If you have a local boxing class in your area, I would recommend taking it at least once to learn the fundamentals of boxing.
When training triceps, it is important to keep resistance on them the entire set to maximize muscle hypertrophy. It is so easy to cheat when training them, so really focus on the muscle during the set to get the results you want.
Keeping a clean and healthy diet is so important in achieving abs, but having proper training techniques to actually engage your abdominal muscles is just as important in developing the desired six-pack look.