Hannah Lynn Fitness

Make sure you are eating enough protein if you are trying to build muscle! Happy Sunday! I thought I would take the time to share with you an at home, no equipment, leg workout! If you are serious about adding size to your legs, the most efficient way is to be lifting challenging weights. Now, as a beginner that only has 5 pound weights lying around the house, it's not difficult to create a challenging upper body workout! But your legs are so much stronger and more powerful, 5 pounds won't be quite as challenging. You can certainly get stronger and even increase muscle mass with no equipment, but this will take more time and may not yield as good of results as heavy lifting will (but more on why you CAN build muscle at home in a bit!). All of this goes to say that basically, as someone who wants to get bigger legs, this can be frustrating when you have limited or even no equipment around. So I highly HIGHLY recommend either joining a gym, or starting one in your own ho...

Welcome back to my blog! It is currently beautiful outside; I am loving this sun! Today I thought I would share another lower body workout, however this one is a little different. On my last long run, I tweaked my low back a little bit. I have injured it before, so this was not a surprise, although it hurt differently than normal. I prefer to have my rest day after long runs, however my rest day had to be used the day before, so I did an upper body workout  to give my legs (and my back) time to recover. The day after that, it was time for some lower body exercise, but I changed it a little bit to accommodate my sore back. It was not the time for heavy squats and deadlifts! I want to share with you the workout I did to avoid putting too much stress on my back, as well as some applicable tips for you guys when you are injured. So here's the workout: Time: 35 minutes Equipment: Resistance Bands, Barbell, Bench Exercise ONE: Pause Box Squats (12) TO RB Lateral Squat Walks (30...

Hello everyone, and Happy March! I have been so busy catching up on homework and reports and whatnot, but I am back! I have posted about my personal workout splits and nutrition before, so I thought a little update would be nice! At the end, I will also post a killer leg workout I did yesterday ( warning: my friend did this with me, and she is unbelievably sore now!!!!) I had previously posted that I was doing a mini bulk followed by a mini cut. Now that those four weeks have ended, I have a new plan. Since eating well is the hardest part of fitness for me, I just wanted to focus on eating good foods- just eat around my maintenance calories . This means that I eat around the same number of calories I burn everyday. I am not trying to lose or gain weight, just create a healthier relationship with food so I can fuel my body right. It's also worth mentioning that I am gradually increasing my calories every week or so by 50-100 calories; this is my own kind of reverse diet , to in...

Hey ya'll! Happy Thursday!:) So today I want to share with you the leg workout I did yesterday! You can do this at a gym or at your house, and it does require equipment. I really want to create an INTENSE no equipment whatsoever workout that you can take with you anywhere- to the living room, the gym, or on vacation! It annoys me so much how people make "no equipment needed" workouts, but then end up using some sort of weight or resistance bands. No. I want to make one that is so effective there is not even a need for any of that! Anyways, for the workout! The equipment I used included: Barbell (dumbbells or any other kind of weight works too, in fact only one exercise uses this so don't be afraid to use no weight at all!) Resistance Band (I used what I call "mini bands," just the small circle bands) Bench (or any kind chair, ottoman, etc.) And that's all! Side note, for the "Resistance Band Pull Throughs" you will need to...

Hello again! This post is just going to be a shortie, I am working on some more posts, but today I just wanted to take you through my workout! As of late, my workout schedule has not been arranged how I wanted it to be, but that's okay! It's a new day, and almost a new week! Usually Saturdays are my long run days, however due to playing church volleyball every Saturday morning, sometimes those long runs get moved to Sunday. And you know what, that's okay! Fitness is a lifestyle, not a bullseye on a target- it should be flexible and achievable by many different methods!  Anyways, instead of having my "extra/fun" day on Friday, I had it today on Saturday! I really wanted to give my glutes some much needed attention, so that's is what I focused on today, along with my calves. I feel like calves get left out of SO SO many leg workouts, so I try to incorporate some calf work every leg day! Alright let's get to it, here's the workout: Equipment: I us...