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Monica Brant Leg Workout Tips Revealed
By admin | August 4, 2008
Do you know who Monica Brant-Peckham is? Monica is THE queen of fitness and a great role model on top of that.
She’s probably the most successful female in the history of both fitness and figure competitions.
She’s also a successful business woman, contest promoter and fitness author.
I wanted to share with you a few of Monica Brant’s leg workout tips and exercises.
While Monica is a big believer in varying her training routine, she usually centers it around doing giant sets of three to five exercises.
Each set also goes for high reps in the 20 to 30 rep range which is great for leg training and cardio.
Don’t believe me?
Try doing a limit set of 30 reps in the full barbell squat and tell me if you’re not breathing like a freight train.
I want to share with you a few very effective leg exercises that you rarely see anybody do.
One leg exercise that Monica Brant performs is the single leg stiff legged deadlift with dumbbells.
You’ll definitely want to start out with light weight in order to find your groove in this exercise since balance is so important.
By doing the stiff legged deadlift in this manner, you force yourself to keep your form strict (or you’ll fall over!) and you really focus on the exercise as well as the muscles being worked.
Another exercise Monica performs that you never see is the bulgarian dumbbell split squat. What did I just say? Exactly my point!
The bulgarian split squat sits between a typical dumbbell lunge and a regular ole’ dumbbell squat.
Hold a dumbbell in each hand. Take your back foot and place it on a flat bench behind you.
Bend your front knee and lower yourself until your front thigh is parallel to the ground.
Go back up into the starting position. That’s one rep.
Be careful not to go forward and push your knee out over your foot.
Your knee should NOT be in front of your foot in the bottom position of the rep.
Finally, the third leg exercise that Monica Brant includes is one that I love but you never see.
I’ve talked about this one before.
I’m talking about performing the leg press one leg at a time.
The way I personally love to perform this leg exercise is as follows:
Use a weight that allows you to get 20 to 30 reps per leg.
Go to failure with one leg and the immediately go to your other leg.
Once you hit failure, go back to the first leg.
Do this for three or 4 sets (per leg) without stopping.
Then do one final set where you only do partial reps with each leg in a small 12 - 15 inch range.
This is brutal and will really spark some progress.
And one last thing about Monica Brant’s leg training.
Monica also performs a lot of sprinting as part of her overall workout.
Notice I said sprinting and not running or jogging.
This includes track sprints, stadium steps, and hill sprints. High intensity interval training is phenomenal for great leg development and burning fat.
Personally, I like the results.
Topics: Weight Training |