Replacement Exercises

Training
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I just started the Hard Body program and have realized there are some exercises I can’t do at home due to lack of equipment. Those would be rowing, leg curls/extensions and lat pull-downs. Do you CT or anyone else have suggestions as to what I can do instead? Thank you!

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What equipment do you have available?
ham curls=Hamstring Hell: Sliding Leg Curls (use a towel on hard floor)
leg extension=sissy squat

With the lat pull downs you could just swap it for any back exercise, I know it’s not what the programme says but to me the most important thing is balancing out the push/pull volume.

Rower=burpees, lots of burpees.

Hope that helps

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The only thing that comes close to a rower is an airdyne or assault bike. But you probably don’t have that either :slight_smile: One drill that I like is burpees jump pull ups… basically you do your burpess below a pull-up bar and at the end of each burpee you jump and do a pull-up… the jump makes the pull-ups much easier especially if you jump high (I once did 150 in a workout) but it still involves the back.

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“One drill that I like is burpees jump pull ups”

Genius as always!!!

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Thanks guys! Yeah,no I don’t have an airdyne.The only machine I own is a treadmill. Thank you both for the suggestions. I wish I did have a rower, jump pull-up burpees sound…amazing :-/ (ha! This is going to be great!)

I didn’t get back to the forum in time to see suggestions for the Tuesday workout so I did Good Mornings and lunges both with an empty barbell. Are those OK to replace the curls/extensions? Or are those too taxing for my pump day?

Thanks
Natasha

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[quote]Tash-Yo wrote:
Thanks guys! Yeah,no I don’t have an airdyne.The only machine I own is a treadmill. Thank you both for the suggestions. I wish I did have a rower, jump pull-up burpees sound…amazing :-/ (ha! This is going to be great!)

I didn’t get back to the forum in time to see suggestions for the Tuesday workout so I did Good Mornings and lunges both with an empty barbell. Are those OK to replace the curls/extensions? Or are those too taxing for my pump day?

Thanks
Natasha [/quote]

If you do them “constant tension” style it might work… only doing the middle part of the range of motion to keep the muscle under tension.

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Thank you Christian!

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