Natalie Jill demonstrates upper body exercises using Lebert Equalizer bars, with modifications for different fitness levels. The workout uses bodyweight and the bars to build strength, with options to progress as you get stronger.
Hey guys, Today we're doing the best upper body body weight workout because you can get so super fit using your own body weight and a few tools that help accelerate your bodyweight training. So today I'm gonna use bars. Now you don't have to use bars. I'm gonna tell you what you can use instead. But I love using Libert bars for this, the Libert Equalizer bars because it really helps me accelerate my upper body workout. So what we're gonna do, I'm gonna take you through a series of five exercises. I'm gonna show you modifications and you every exercise I show you, I'm going to tell you what you can use instead. But if you've got bars, grab them because if you have leverage equalizer bars, you're going to love this workout. And if not, we're going to start that first exercise on. You can get a sturdy chair or a low countertop. Or if you're going to do this at the gym, you can use a lowered squat rack. That will work too. But what we want to start with is some basic push ups. Now bear with me. If you're advanced, I'm going to take you through the advanced move. But for beginners, we're going to start your feet placed slightly apart. We're going to start with a basic push up. This is beginner right here and just working it up. And you'll want to alternate legs here if you're a beginner. If you are advanced, even if you can do great pushups, I want you to start higher up here at this incline and get a motion going. So you're either right here or you're one foot in front to make it a little bit easier. And if you don't have bars, you could be using a chair, a countertop or a lowered squat rack or. But I just want to get everything warmed up right here because we're going to really work that upper body today. Okay, just a few more wherever you are so you're breathing. Give me one more good one. Who? Okay, now we're going to take it lower. So with this one you could take it all the way to the floor. Or if you're using the Liberty equalizer bars with me, I want you to turn it on the side here and you'll place your hands here. And this is good. It helps you with your wrist if you're using a bar. So because you're grabbing versus placing it on the floor. But either way got standard push ups. It's going to be a little bit harder than when we were at that standing incline, and just take it down and up just like this. And I love this, especially for clients that have wrist issues because they can grab on and it really helps. I love the bar for this. Give me a few more here. If you need to make it easier, you can always come down to your knees. I just want you to get in this push up habit right here. Take one more. Down, up. Nice. Good job. Okay, we're going to take it to a tricep press. So again, you can use a chair or a lowered squat rack or the levered equalizer. I'm going to take a mat, fold it up to protect my knees. Right here, we're going to work the backs of our arms, our triceps. So what we've got here, feet a little bit off the ground. Just a slight dip down. Just like this. Here we go. So keep that core tight, back flat, down and up. All that weight and force should be in the back of your arms. Bring it down. Nice. Squeeze down and up. Give me four more right here. One more. Nice. Good job. Shake it out. Do you feel that? It doesn't take a lot of these. You just want to make sure you are feeling it. No magic number or rep. It's whatever is intense for you and whatever you're going to feel. Okay, we're going to take it to a standing position. Moving on with that upper body and the triceps. Now you can use a lowered squat rack. You can use a lowered bench, a chair. Again, I'm using the lever equalizers. Now. I'm going to start here with my feet on the ground, and I'm just going to take it to a basic dip. This is what it looks like right here. Now we're going to start to do a dip just like this. So that's option one. Option two is to lift your feet off the ground and take it to a dip just like this. And then if you're really feeling it, you can bring your feet forward and hold it like that. Pick whichever one you're gonna do, and we're gonna get set up, and we're gonna take it down. Ready? Take it down and up. Nice. No matter where you are. Beginner, intermediate, advanced, take it from where you are. You don't have to go all the way down, Just that small movement to feel it in the backs of those arms. Down and up. Give me three more right here. Nice. Shake it out. Little mini tricep step stretch right there. And we're going to move on to our backs and this is a modified chin up. We're going to take it down to the ground. Bars together. Now, if you're on a squat rack, you'll just hold under that lowered squat rack. If not, you're using the levered equalizer bars. Feet out in front. It's just pulling up just like this. Go. It's a great way to introduce yourself to a chin up or a pull up. We're going to give me five more here. If this is too easy, you can lift the leg up, make it more challenging. One more up hold. Lower it down. You did it to see. Now that was a super short workout. Easy to do anywhere. You're accelerating your own body weight and I bet you felt that. Now if you need more, you can absolutely repeat it. But with body weight, what I love is you can continually progress. Challenge yourself using your own weight and tools like the Liberty Equalizer bars. Now for more of my workouts and make sure you check out my other videos here. Or if you want to order the Libre Equalizer bars. You're going to love them and you even might recognize someone on the box. If you get the rose gold, I hope you'll love them as much as I do. Bye.
