Lower Body Circuit Workout

Hey everyone,

We are rehabilitating some injuries and have thus been carefully designing our workouts and selecting safe exercises (to avoid re-injury).  We consciously choose to not let injuries hold us back or lead us to abandon our training.  By safely working around our injuries, we can keep fit and likely even speed up our recovery.  This lower body workout is a good example of how we have adapted to avoid significant spinal compression (due to a back injury) or deep knee bend (due to a knee injury).

This is a lower body circuit workout, which is comprised of 6 exercises.  Once you have  completed a full circuit, you can take a rest break.  We completed 3 circuits in total for the workout.  This workout does require a kettlebell, Jungle Gym XT (or similar suspension trainer) and a bench.  However, if you are lacking some of this equipment, you can always substitute in different exercises.  Similarly, if you have a particular injury you are training around, then you can substitute a different exercise (e.g. Tannys has an injured knee, so instead of doing the explosive pistol squats she did alternating kettlebell deadlifts).

We enjoyed this workout and found it sufficiently challenging for our legs.  It's tough when you can't do heavy squats or deadlifts, but by moving through the exercises at a fast pace (minimal to no rest) and by pushing hard in each exercise (e.g. really exploding upwards in those jumping pistol squats), you can give your lower body a great workout.  Try it and let us know what you think!

- Tannys & Alex