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QuickFit: Legs Back 2.17.25

6Min:04sec. A quick leg work out, mostly done with your own body weight. Add in a little weight if you can. Jump in and do this quick work out to jump start your day with some squats and other exercises!

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Hello, Dr.

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Jed here. Today we’re doing a daily five

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that is a quick five minutes focused exercise

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to tune up part of your human body.

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Let’s get started with one of the most basic,

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most fundamental exercises of all time.

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That is the squat. I’m gonna come on down.

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Let’s get knees going out a little bit wide.

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That hip hinge, that’s the key part.

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I’m gonna hold my hands out here in front, just down and up.

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Nice and slow. Okay, down. End up.

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If you have a little trouble with this holding onto a chair,

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hold onto a kitchen sink.

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Nothing wrong with that at all.

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I’m gonna switch to profile here to, um, to show

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the hip hinge.

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So hip hinge, back down, all the way down. Right there.

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Good, good, good. You don’t wanna be rounding it out.

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Just down and up, down and up.

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Now let’s just pump out a few. Okay? Boom, boom.

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Alright, let’s do 10 more.

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10, 9, 8. Keep your focus.

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Keep your focus. Maintain the knees.

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Maintain that correct position. Dropping that butt back.

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Well, I probably lost count,

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but that’s good for us feeling a little bit of a burn.

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Hopefully you are two. Let’s do three, two.

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Hold it. Let’s drop a little.

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It’s okay for those knees to go forward a little bit.

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Drop that butt. Drop that butt and now pump it.

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3, 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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Ah, good. Shake it out. Shake it out. Shake it out.

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Well even that right there is a nice little burn.

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Let’s keep going a little bit on the leg. Focus.

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Uh, for right now, I’m just gonna do some toe raises.

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Hopefully you can see my toes there.

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I’m just gonna go up, down, up, down.

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See those Boom, boom, boom, up, down, up, down.

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We’ll do these kind of high up. Okay?

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So we’re just gonna bounce it here for almost a minute.

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Okay? I’m, uh, watching a clock over here.

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We’re just gonna do it. Do it, do it.

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Once again, if you’re holding onto a kitchen

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sink, that’s great.

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The bathroom sink. Some people say

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do this while brushing your teeth in the morning,

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brushing your hair, something like that.

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Bust out 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 if you can.

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Nothing wrong with that.

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We’re just gonna do 10 more seconds. Go, go.

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Squeeze, squeeze. Take this moment. Squeezing your abs.

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Squeezing your butt muscles. Squeezing your leg muscles.

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We’re gonna go up, we’re gonna go tiptoe, tiptoe,

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tiptoe working those little muscles.

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Okay? Shake it out. Shake it out. Okay.

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Now we’re just gonna progress to

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a little bit of weight here.

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I have a kettlebell, 15 pounds, no big deal. Okay?

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Now if you do another set

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of squats right now without any weight, totally fine.

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Okay? But uh,

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sometimes you can just use like maybe a gallon jug.

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That’s eight pounds. I just got a 15 here. Okay?

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Gonna go nice and slow.

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This is kinda like held in,

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like you might call it the dangle.

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You know, some people really like the goblet squat.

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Either one is completely acceptable.

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Whatever feels good to you, okay?

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Once again, drop ’em down, drop ’em down and up,

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Down And up.

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What we’re gonna shoot for is though those uh,

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legs right there, drop down,

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ideally parallel to the ground.

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Sometimes we might get a little more adventurous.

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I’m gonna go side to side and drop it down a little bit.

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Drop it down a little bit.

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A lot of fat, a lot of things go

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into, be able to do that right there.

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It’s very tricky, but it’s excellent for your hip health,

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your glute muscles, your quad muscles, okay?

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Now from this position,

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we’re gonna bust out eight or 10, okay?

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Now up

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Woo And down,

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2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

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Stay strong. Keep your focus.

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1, 2, 3, 4.

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Oh man. We’re gonna hold it.

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I’m gonna really drop, I’m gonna pump it for five.

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1, 4, 3, 2, 1. Wow.

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Woo. Okay, that’s good.

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So now we’re gonna transition here.

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Lean forward just a little bit so that hip hinge back

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and now we’re just gonna bring this up, okay?

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1, 2, 3, 4.

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I’m gonna go straight on here.

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You can bring up, I prefer this a little bit bent over.

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You can do a straight up if you like.

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Most important part is

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that you’re doing something right now.

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If you’re choosing just five minutes of your day,

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you’re doing something right now.

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Okay?

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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We’re just gonna go over here in

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a little bit more profile.

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Come on now.

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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Let’s do 10 squats, Okay? One,

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Two. This time. See I have

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the dangle.

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I’m gonna stop right there. My,

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my knee bobbled in a little bit.

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Be aware, but keep going. Okay?

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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I’m gonna go up to a gobbled squat. Hold if you can.

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Let’s see if we can drop down here.

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Okay, if you can’t do this, you just take a break.

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Gonna squat over to one side over the other

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to one side and the other.

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Really work on that ankle. Mobility on my left ankle.

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Mobility on my right. That hip mobility now from right here.

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Call us in a deep squat.

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We’re just gonna do a few pumps here.

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 5, 4.

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Field to burn. 3, 2, 1.

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Ah, Oh yeah, that’s good. Alright, well that’s good.

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Daily. Five, just five minutes.

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Quick exercise, legs, low back.

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Little bit of that upper back.

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The thing is you’re taking care of yourself.

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Keep up the good work. Take care of yourself and be well.