Partner Resistance Exercises: Abductors

Series Summary

Many people want to lose weight, and despite claims for quick fat burning pills and powders, the best way to lose weight is still through proper diet and exercise. Exercise does more than just maintain physical fitness though. Working out can also help build healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility. It can also reduce your general health risks, boost the immune system, and help with depression and insomnia. Whether your reason for exercising is to lose weight, or improve muscle mass, working out is always a good idea to help promote the health of your body and mind. Working out can be tough on your own. Having a workout partner can be an excellent motivation to exercise. In this free video series, learn how to do some partner resistance exercises. Our expert has been a physical fitness trainer for over 23 years. She demonstrates how to safely stretch with a partner. Learn how to stretch hamstrings, deltoids, triceps, biceps and more! Also, learn how to do standard exercises with the help of a partner: shoulder presses, bench presses, and bicep curls. You don't have to work out alone. With her instruction, loose weight and tone muscles with the help of a friend!

Video Transcript

"With this clip we're going to show you how to work the, Neen relax your leg there, the outside part of the thigh, the extension of the glute. Which begins behind you and connects out to the side into the front of the thigh. So we have the leg extended with your energy pressing through the heel. And what we are going to do is just have, you lower and then lift to the point where you've got your hips stacked right on top of each other. And then lower and then as she starts to lift I'm going to press against. So what we are doing here is showing you how to use, and lower, and lift and as she lifts I'm pressing against with resistance, so I'm getting upper body strength, she is getting lower body and release. And she is making sure that her hips stay stacked on top of one another, her knees are in line and resist up. And for beginners we're working in about an eight to ten rep range, intermediate ten to twelve and up to the point of fatigue. Working abduction away from the mid line of the body, making sure your head is nice and relaxed and you put the work load right there on the outside part of the thigh, and release. And this is a good way to get in there and apply resistance with a partner when you don't have equipment or weights."