Hey Sable. I sit on the floor with my legs out straight and just roll the bar up to the right level. The plates are big enough so I fit under the bar. If the plates you have are not big enough then yo can make a little platform for them to sit on and allow you room to slide under 🙂

Usually I go to the gym in the morning about 10 or 11 – it’s not busy then at all! 😀

How do you load the bar onto your hips for your glute bridges? That’s probably a silly question, but I’ve never seen you when you actually load. Do you put on your weights and then slide under the space? Also, where do you ladies find these awesome (and usually empty!) gyms? I’m currently going to a commercial gym where everything is super crowded with machines. There is one squat and one power rack. Alas, no deadlifting platform. If I want to deadlift I either have to take up a rack (they just use the damned things for curls anyway, ugh!) or steal a bar from a bench and do my lifts in the 3 foot aisle between the benches and machines. And I block the benches. I have a feeling I’m going to have to schedule my training sessions at about 5 or 6 am so I can have all the weights to myself. Bwahaha.

Hey there! Thanks for visiting and for your feedback. I am really glad that my workouts can offer you an extra challenge and some more variety to your training. I think that BodyRock’s workouts are good for supplementing your strength training and also for those days when you don’t have much time for a full body workout but still want to do something fun. In fact I will say if you continue to progress your strength training, you will see much better results in your overall performance in strength AND conditioning 🙂 Variety is definitely a great way to stay motivated!

Cheers
Marianne

Yay for TGUs! Enjoy your rest Mickela. I had a great weekend thanks 🙂

Ah thanks Lynda, I know now what you mean! Silly me, it just clicked 🙂

Cheers
Marianne

Hi Marianne

The Vipr is a cylinder of heavy plastic/rubber. It comes in different weights ie starts from 8kg. On one side it has two hand holds and on the other it has one. It reminds me of Farmers walk metal thingy I used many years ago.Have a look on You tube it’ll make more sense.

PS I’m soooooooo sore today thanks to you 🙂 Have a good day!! or night!!

I’m confused … “first DL”? I only did one type of DL in this vid. Your back should always be flat. As I go heavier, sometimes my lower back starts to round a little WHICH IS WRONG of me. I am trying to strengthen my lower back and form to stop this happening above 85kg. You should check out the following link because it has THE BEST and more thorough information on the DL and all its variations. Scroll down to see a section on the Sumo DL, although mostly the principles stay the same.

http://robertsontrainingsystems.com/blog/deadlift/#more-1160