Here we have another video live from the “Pain Cave”, this time featuring Patty performing a brutal lower body workout with an emphasis on the hip muscles.

For many women weight training is an afterthought, something they might play around with after they’re done with their aerobics class if there’s time, or after toning and shaping on the stairmaster or treadmill.

Not Patty.

She understands the value of weight training for weight loss and fat burning by permanently raising the resting metabolic rate via increasing lean body mass.

And she knows what High Intensity Training means, and how to put in a maximum effort.

A credit to the Nation, to be sure.

This workout features a nice double pre-exhaustion sequence–starting with the Med-X sidelying hip extension machine (you probably haven’t seen this before), then isolating the lateral hip muscles with the hip abduction machine, then finishing everything off with one set to failure on the Med-X leg press.

Keep in mind that if you’re going to target a certain body part in a workout with extra exercises, it is wise to decrease the amount of exercises you do for the rest of your body, in order to keep your total workout volume low enough that you will still be able to adequately recover in a timely fashion. You only have one gas tank; if you make one part of your workout longer, you need to make the rest shorter-otherwise you risk overtraining, and your efforts will be wasted because you won’t build muscle.

The rest of Patty’s workout that day consisted of 1 set of chest press, 1 set of seated rows, and 1 set on the old-school pink Nautilus ab machine. That’s it. (The remainder of the workout is shown on the second video below).

Check out this video for the butt-blaster workout:

Check out this one for the rest of the workout:

Don’t forget to leave a comment about Patty’s workout below!

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