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Hello, superstars!This is my first note taker Ai app where I'm gonna have the way to give you tips, fitness, healthy, eating, training. So right now, I want to share my upcoming leg day routine. I've been training heavy and built up strength in my squat and my Nordic curls for the last two months, and now I notice that I kind of don't look forward to cardio, and I know that I need to train some kind of intense cardio to keep my vo2 Max, and that matters to me. So what I'm gonna do when I return to training now is to do my 90 second squats with speed, as in, not going slow and eccentric, and then use the max amount of weight I can do with that 90 seconds, and then I'm going to build it up to 10 sets of squats. And the reason why I have it 90 seconds, it's like running a 400 meter sprint, so I can kind of push it. I want to see what happens to my leg size with that. It means that the total load is going to be greater, but the absolute load on the bar is going to be less. I feel much safer in knees and hips and pretty much my lower back too. When I reduce the weight and then go for more speed. I love the pump it gives me for Nordic curls, that is my mainstay, instead of deadlifts. And I'm working on 10 sets of that, doing different eccentrics, different poor man glute, hem rays versions and so on. So in my current schedule, where I train legs twice a week, I also have my dedicated glute training, and I want to share with that with you. I've been building up with glute thrust, bilateral glute thrust with band, and I do the band to stop hyperextension on the top. And I've been doing five sets up with 220 pounds and with excellent form, but I feel that when I do the sets of 15-20, it's much tougher. That means I want to use that to have less absolute weight and work harder. So coming back now, I'm gonna do my higher rep training and put that into my weekly routine. 10 sets, I'm building that up. My glute extension power needs to be worked on. I have a lot of hip strength to improve on, especially an extension in my glute training, I have my banded fire hydrants that I got bored of and did the laying down on chest, back and forth move With my flexed knee and hip or actually extended, but that got bored of that too. So now I'm gonna do the clam and also do clam walk, gorilla style with band, alternating left and right, and that too with band. My point with this is to let yourself have fun with the training. I am no way interested in hearing my own body shaming like a bodybuilder all those years of never being really happy, always too skinny or too scrawny when I'm lean, I feel too thin. When I'm fatter, then I feel too big, then that's something wrong. So no matter what, right, never happy, and I'm over that. I think it's ridiculous. I train for the Fit feeling, and I period eyes the way I train. I've been training heavy for a while. Not all the time.I never quit. I just find a new way periodization, like an athlete without a sport but a life to live!And when I feel that, when I look at my body, or I, you know, take photos or film, and I know that I am lean and I am dense and I am so called thin, but pound for pound, I'm muscular, and if I'm not, it doesn't matter anyway, this is what I tell myself, here’s my point. I am over letting my mind think even have an opinion about how my body looks. I live healthy. I train focused, I enjoy my day. That always wins. I am not an on and off, yo yo, diet person. I am consistent because I love it. So with that said, I want you to kind of get a feeling of my intuitive and flexible strength training philosophy so now you know what I'm doing. I would love to know, what are you challenging yourself with? What are your hiccups? Or do you just go for walks? If you think that's all I do, I don't, but today was so thank you so much for reading my words of life & self reflection. I look forward to these blogs that make me more efficient with voice to text as my routine to share my life with you!Come connect with me in my private fitness community for women who I lead and coach!paulinenordin.uscreen.io 
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March 05

Forearm pain: golfer's elbow and tennis elbow are not just for golfing folkds & tennis players!

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Forearm Self Care

Forearm Self Care
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March 05

Supersets on Supersets Upper Body Muscle Yoga Marathon!

How do you like this one?

I warm up with my slow mode version of barbell cleans or call them gentle warmup push presses with a barbell then I go straight into standing foot banded biceps curls.

I do bilateral and alternating banded biceps curls superset with overhead triceps barbell extensions. You can use dumbbells or do these lying down on the floor for easier less mobility requiring alternatives.

Now I go straight to reverse grip barbell curls for forearm and then detour to the barbell cleans/front push press exercise I did in the start. What is the name of this exercise? it's like a kettlebell swing but in a new way.

From that I go down on the floor to do skullcrushers or gilloutin press for triceps to hit a slightly different angle superset with longer overhead triceps extensions.

Now it's time for triceps press with legs up in the air superset with supine leg raises on the floor, stay in the bottom for alternating flutter leg kicks and back to leg raises on the floor, so it's triple combination, keep working with me for this non stop routine!

In the end of the workout I set up a biceps concentration curl with bands supporting myself on the inside of my knees. Watch the angle and find your angle to get tension right.

After all that I go back to standing triceps extension with barbell again and then finishing with another set of reverse wrist curls with thumbs over and around to keep going!

That's a wrap!

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Supersets on Superset Upper...

I warm up with my slow mode version of barbell cleans or call...
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March 05

Hello there!

It’s Thursday and form check time for side lunges.

If you’re doing them without any added weight, how are you setting it up? 

When you’re loading them what happens to your form? 

My one on one clients FILM and send me form check videos so I can check and coach on the execution, so you must do that for yourself if you have no trainer around. 

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Form Check Side Lunges

Are you getting deep enough on your side lunges? Or just...
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March 04

If you don't HAVE muscle muscle definition in your upper back, you need to try this workout!

The famous butterfly for shoulders is the warmup here, I use a top from a glute ham raise bench, but you can simply use a regular bench or do a short range motion on the floor.

The first exercise in the training is a short range shoulder raise for upper back for isometric peak holds superset with pulsing reps in a flying position. Follow along with my reps and sets so you keep the tempo.

The second move is a banded overhead rhomb adduction that require shoulder mobility, make sure you use a band that lets you move without being too strong.

The third move is a unilateral barbell rhomb rear shoulder raise that will strengthen your upper mind back well, you all need that.

The fourth move is a detour to butterfly reps with a limited range with a drop set, and then more repping out for a finisher of more mid back reps of dumbbell raises.

The famous butterfly for shoulders is the warmup here, I use a top from a glute ham raise bench, but you can simply use a regular bench or do a short range motion on the floor.

The first exercise in the training is a short range shoulder raise for upper back for isometric peak holds superset with pulsing reps in a flying position. Follow along with my reps and sets so you keep the tempo.

The second move is a banded overhead rhomb adduction that require shoulder mobility, make sure you use a band that lets you move without being too strong.

The third move is a unilateral barbell rhomb rear shoulder raise that will strengthen your upper mind back well, you all need that.

The fourth move is a detour to butterfly reps with a limited range with a drop set, and then more repping out for a finisher of more mid back reps of dumbbell raises.

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Short range Work for Upper ...

The famous butterfly for shoulders is the warmup here, I use a...
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March 04

In tis workout I use a hamstring roller to train my hamstrings. If you don't have one you can use a foam roller instead.

The position I'm holding myself up with requires a lof of upper body strength, if you need to lay down on your back, do that.

The challenge is to keep the hip extended, not flexed. You'll see that I keep it flexed because I don't have the strength to keep it up. To build my strength I focus on the eccentric part of the reps where you're naturally stronger.

After the table top leg curls I do lying down leg curls with one leg at a time.

The next move is poor man glute ham raises without an attachment for my ankles, this truly requires body control, coordination and balance!

In the end I stretch the hamstrings in a seated position, holding a flexed hip to avoid affecting my previously torn hamstrings, taking out the stretch lower down from my tears on the sit bones.

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Hamstrings with sliding leg...

In tis workout I use a hamstring roller to train my...
  in  ðŸ”¶ seizethetrainingday
March 04

Helllo Happy Wednesday superstars!

I come in here and adding content, updating and sharing my joy for fitness, training, mind & body.

When I do you get notified if you DO check in!

If you don't you won't know that I'm here and living out my best life and you're all in it if you want to.

I don't want to overwhel you with notifications and I tag you simply to alert you, it's time inefficient for me and not at all what I want to focus on.

The reason I don't want to tag you more than now and then is I want YOU to come tune in, show interest naturally.

I completely understand those who don't want to be reminded that fitness & wellness life is NOW and it happens every day.

When you're here you CHOOSE to be in my life and I'm very grateful.

I don't rely on social media to stay in contact with you, this is the place you can be part of to spend quality time together.

Thank you for being here, Superstars!

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March 03

Strengthen the weak links on the chain...Rebuilding my power from torn shoulders and hamstrings!

In this workout I start with a banded warmup exercis for upper body to warm up my shoulders.

This was part of my fitness journey coming back from my torn shoulders, I share about it while I warm up.

The first exercise is a table top isometric with one leg out and I use the mirror to make sure I don't drop the hip from full hip extension, tune in to my talk about how it's challenging me to keep it in full extension.

I transition to a straight leg table top alternating leg hold superset with overhead banded shoulder presses for rebuilding my shoulders.

After that I do my favorite shoulder cross on the floor with 10 seconds peak holds, followed by 10 reps sets.

I keep up doing sets of the toughest part of the exercise for my hip extension power, glutes activation mega time!

For the finale I do another version of rear shoulder rebuilding work with an overhead banded extension and then an isometric horizontal external shoulder abduction as a superset.

I would LOVE to know how you feel about this one!

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Sshoulders and hamstrings r...

Strengthen the weak links on the chain...Rebuilding my power...
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March 02

Thank you for sharing about my community with your friends and followers on social media!

It's very much appreciated!

If you want to support my work and presence here simply share who you train with and why! 

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