The actress makes the full body workout look easy.
Kate Upton isn’t afraid of a challenge, especially when it comes to her workouts with a longtime trainer. Ben Bruno. With him, she has boarded water resistance exercises in the poolmultiple variations of trap bar deadliftY single leg hip thrusts – just to name a few of the exercises the duo have posted online. More recently, Bruno shared a flashback clip of when Upton let her husband, Houston Astros baseball player Justin Verlander, climb aboard as she pushed a sled up the hill.
In the clip, Verlander stands on a three-wheeled sled as Upton leans forward to push it up a hill on a neighborhood street while wearing pink leggings and a black tank top. “My wife pushed me like always,” Verlander jokes in the video. “Just the ball and chain weigh me down,” Upton replies.
Through his playful banter, Verlander encourages Upton to keep going as he takes a few more steps up the steep incline. His dog, Norman, even makes a cameo appearance and enters the scene at the last minute.
Bruno shared the silly clip in honor of Verlander’s team that made it to the Major League Baseball World Series, according to the caption of his post.
No matter what you use to load a sled, pushing and pulling the sled are great exercises to add to your routine. They “work everything”, Brian Nguyenkate hudsons coach, previously said Form. “It’s also great for separating your legs and hips — your legs have to work independently,” she added. (Read more: What is unilateral training and why is it important?)
“Implementing a weighted sled push into a training program is a safe and effective way to increase both performance and overall conditioning.” Marty Miller, DHScNASM Regional Master Instructor and Vice President of Education and Training at Technogym North America, previously said Form. You need to produce a lot of force quickly to push a sled forward, which works your glutes, quads, hamstrings and calves, he explained. Also, you will increase your heart rate.
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Nowadays, Upton seems willing to add more weight to her sled workouts, but that wasn’t always the case. “When I started training with him [Bruno], he would say, ‘Let’s put 500 pounds on the sled,’ and I would immediately say, ‘I can’t do that.’ So, he started standing on the sled so he couldn’t see how much weight was there,” Upton said. previously said Form. “Now, my attitude has completely changed and I always strive to do more.”
Adding your trainer or partner to your loadout is certainly one way to propel yourself to a new PR. IF you like the game, consider bringing a training partner to your next gym session to take a page from Upton’s book.
