I am not a member of a gym, don’t have any weights and it’s too cold to run (23 degrees with wind!), so tonight I exercised my legs until failure. I read about the concept of exercising this way to build endurance in your muscle fibers. So for the last hour I used my body weight to do calf raises, inner thigh lifts, hip raises (I don’t know the real name), wall squats and back extensions.
I did calf raises on one leg for two minutes each ( man that burned), then both legs for four more minutes. Then back to one leg for a minute each for the next 4 minutes. Without resting I went to inner thigh lifts for four minutes on each leg. While still on my side, I went to hip raises. Again, four minutes on each leg. The last exercise in the cycle was wall squats. I’ve been slowly building up the amount of time I can stand (sit) doing this. Four minutes of wall squats, then back to the calf raises I go….All of the exercises are performed AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE.
One leg calf raises | Both leg calf raises | Inner thigh lifts | Hip raises | Wall squats | Back extensions |
4 minutes | 4 minutes | 4 minutes | 4 minutes | 4 minutes | 4 minutes |
3 minutes | 4 minutes | 4 minutes | 4 minutes | 3 minutes | 4 minutes |
1 minute | 2 minutes | 4 minutes | 4 minutes | 2 minutes | 4 minutes |
That workout was pretty close to failure. Now, an hour later I feel like I could do it all over again. Lucky for me that I’m not going to do it all over again!