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How To Do It

• Start with feet shoulder-width apart, toes pointed slightly out, chest up, and hands behind your head.
• Hinge at your hips to bring your torso down to hip level.
• Now sit back with your hips as if sitting in a chair. Lower yourself until your hips are parallel to the ground.
• Drive through your glutes to return to your hinge position.
• Drive through your heels to return to standing, flexing your quads and glutes to finish.

Form Check: Keep your chest up as you hinge and squat.

How To Do It

• Start standing, and fold at your hips to reach for the ground.
• Walk your hands out into a high plank, with wrists stacked below shoulders (or just slightly wider), feet together, and back straight.
• Keep your core tight and lower your body with control until your chest hovers an inch or two above the ground, pause for one second here.
• As you push back up bring your chest through your arms, and extend your back to stretch your lower back.
• Push your hips back into a downward dog position.
• Walk your feet up towards your hands, and repeat.

Form Check: Keep your lats and core activated as you shift through each position.

How To Do It

• Start in a quadruped position with hands stacked below your shoulders, and knees below your hips.
• Come up onto your hands and toes.
• Reach forward with the opposite hand and knee.
• Once firmly planted, reach forward with the other hand and knee.
• Repeat to continue crawling like a bear.

Form Check: Maintain a slight bend at the knees and keep your hips just above your shoulders.

How To Do It

• Stand with your chest up and place your hands behind your head.
• Lunge forward until your rear knee is hovering a few inches off the ground.
• Jump up as high as you can and switch legs so you land with the opposite leg in front of your lunge.
• Land soft with your knee tracking straight forward before jumping up and switching again.

Form Check: Keep your shoulders in line with your hips and knees.

How To Do It

• Start with your feet shoulder-width apart and squat down until your thighs are parallel to the floor.
• From the bottom of the squat, place your hands on the floor and kick your legs out behind you into a high plank position.
• Complete a pushup then jump your legs back up towards your hands, landing back in the bottom of your squat.
• Drive upwards through your heels, and explode upward, jumping as high as you can.

Form Check: Your chest and thighs must touch the ground to count as one rep. Fully extend your body at the top of the jump.

How To Do It

• Start with your feet shoulder-width apart and holding your kettlebell with one hand, arm extended naturally at your side.
• Maintain a strong neutral stance as you walk forward, remaining strong and stable to hold the kettlebell in place. 

Form Check: Fight to stay square, and keep your core active at all times.

How To Do It

• Start with your feet shoulder-width apart and holding your kettlebell with one hand, do a single arm clean to rack the kettlebell at your shoulder.
• Maintain a strong neutral stance as you walk forward, holding the kettlebell.

Form Check: Keep your shoulders square and straight, in line with your hips.

How To Do It

• Stand up straight with your feet shoulder-width apart.
• Step forward with your right leg, putting the weight into your heel.
• Bend your right knee, lowering it until it’s parallel to the floor.
• Your upper and lower legs should form a 90-degree angle, on both your right and left leg.
• Push through your right heel to come back up, extending your right leg, and flexing your glute to finish.
• Step forward with your left leg, repeating the movement on the left side.
• Repeat this movement, walking forward as you lunge.
  

Form Check: Maximize your range of motion by grazing your knee just above the floor. Keep your shoulders in line with your hips.

How To Do It

• Stand up straight with your feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart, and the kettlebell in front of you so your feet and the kettlebell form a triangle.
• Squat down to reach for the kettlebell handle, and swing the kettlebell behind you, in between your legs. Keep your lats activated and chest up.
• When the kettlebell reaches the end of its backward swing, in one forceful movement drive your hips forward, squeezing your glutes and contracting your abs as if coming up from a deadlift.
• Your momentum will snap the kettlebell forward to right about shoulder height.
• Allow the kettlebell to naturally swing back behind you and repeat.

Form Check: Squeeze your glutes at full extension. Keep your arms long and stop the kettlebell at eye level.