{"id":32,"date":"2019-03-12T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/?p=32"},"modified":"2019-03-12T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T21:29:07","slug":"leg-day-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/2019\/03\/12\/leg-day-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"Leg Day Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a fitness blog means I should probably post a couple workout ideas for you guys. The first workout I want to share is a leg workout and this specific one helps you focus on gaining lean muscle while burning fat. Long story short this is a great leg workout for getting that summer body back.<\/p>\n<p>Every movement in this work out has 4 sets of 10-12 reps which means you do the movement 10-12 times 4 times.<\/p>\n<p>back squat 4&#215;10-12<\/p>\n<p>leg press machine 4&#215;25-30<\/p>\n<p>walking lunges 4&#215;10-12<\/p>\n<p>Straight leg deadlift 4&#215;10-12<\/p>\n<p>leg extension machine 4&#215;10-12<\/p>\n<p>ending the workout with 30 mins of cardio of your choosing.<\/p>\n<p>The cool thing about this workout and having the high rep count (10-12) along with a pretty high set count of four allows you to get a fairly high heart rate. Getting a higher heart rate in a workout allows your blood-flow to get oxygen and nutrients to your muscles along with just making your heart healthier.Give this workout a try next time you have a leg day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a fitness blog means I should probably post a couple workout ideas for you guys. The first workout I want to share is a leg workout and this specific one helps you focus on gaining lean muscle while burning fat. Long story short this is a great leg workout for getting that summer body back. Every movement in this work out has 4 sets of 10-12 reps which means you do the movement 10-12 times 4 times. back squat 4&#215;10-12 leg press machine 4&#215;25-30 walking lunges 4&#215;10-12 Straight leg deadlift 4&#215;10-12 leg extension machine 4&#215;10-12 ending the workout with 30 mins of cardio of your choosing. The cool thing about this workout and having the high rep count (10-12) along with a pretty high set count of four allows you to get a fairly high heart rate. Getting a higher heart rate in a workout allows your blood-flow to get oxygen and nutrients to your muscles along with just making your heart healthier.Give this workout a try next time you have a leg day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/universityfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}