You know fitness matters. By remaining active, you can improve your physical and mental health in a myriad of ways, especially as you get older. But there are a number of workouts you could potentially do — which ones should you begin with?
With the help of personal trainers, we’ve determined the best exercises that fit a wide range of fitness goals. These exercises will improve your strength and endurance and will benefit your workout journey in the long run. You can also modify them depending on your fitness level and still get the same benefits. Add these expert-approved exercises to your workouts today.
1. Deadlifts
The deadlift is a compound exercise that has you lifting heavy weight off the floor by bending at the hips and standing back up. There are plenty of variations to choose from whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned weightlifter. Some variations include the kettlebell deadlift, Romanian deadlift, conventional deadlift, stiff-legged deadlift, sumo deadlift and trap bar (or hex bar) deadlift.
“The deadlift is a great exercise because it helps strengthen the core, back, shoulders, arm muscles, as well as your glutes, quads, hamstrings and calves,” says John Gardner, a NASM-certified personal trainer. He explains that the deadlift is an essential exercise that stimulates both the upper and lower body simultaneously, allowing more muscles to be engaged at the same time. “You’ll be burning more calories as well as making it an extremely time-efficient exercise,” Gardner adds. As a result of doing deadlifts, your posture will also improve because of the way it targets your back muscles and shoulders.
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If you plan on deadlifting, have a personal trainer or experienced weightlifter observe your form. One common mistake people make when performing deadlifts is squatting (and bending the knees too much) instead of hinging at the hips. Another mistake is arching or rounding the back instead of engaging the upper body and core muscles. This can lead to a lower back injury because of the pressure it causes on your back. You also need to be mindful to not overextend your neck and head and should keep it in a straight line.
If you have a history of chronic back issues, a spine injury or are pregnant, it’s best to consult with your doctor or personal trainer first before doing this exercise.
2. Push-ups
The push-up is beneficial for building up your upper body strength and targets your chest, triceps, back and shoulders. Although it’s a well-known exercise, it’s also one that is commonly done incorrectly — even by experienced exercisers.
“The nice thing about the push-up is that it can easily be modified to fit your skill level,” says Dr. Brittany Noel Robles, a certified personal trainer and OB-GYN. Some modifications include doing a push-up against the wall, or with your hands elevated on an incline to make it more challenging. Once you’ve mastered the push-up from these angles, you can take it to the floor and practice them through changing up the tempo or your hand positioning.
“Everyone should include push-ups in their workout because they are a functional exercise that translates into real-world situations,” says Robles. “Specifically, the push-up trains the functional movement pattern of horizontal pushing, or the ability to push objects away from you.”
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3. Pallof press
The Pallof press is an anti-rotation movement that limits the rotation of your spine. It’s considered a core strength training exercise that can be easily done using a cable machine or resistance band. “Your transverse abdominis, or your internal belt, helps secure your low back as a deep muscle in your core,” says James Shapiro, an LA-based sports performance coach. “By activating it more and becoming stronger, you’ll be able to increase your strength in compound movements and increase activation in your rectus (your six-pack).”
There are variations that allow you to efficiently workout your core. To perform this motion you’ll need a resistance band tied to a power rack (or a sturdy base) or a cable machine with a handle set up depending on whether you’ll be standing or kneeling. You can do this movement by standing in a staggered stance, half-kneeling or tall-kneeling on the ground. If you have lower back issues, the Pallof press can be performed either seated or on your back on the floor. Shapiro recommends that beginners start with very light weight and hold the position as they breathe.
4. Inverted row
The inverted row is an exercise that both beginners and advanced exercisers can do to strengthen their upper back. It also improves scapular retraction, which can help prepare you to do pull-ups if your goal is to master them. Typically the inverted row can be done using TRX suspension straps or using the bar from a barbell positioned on a rack above you while you’re in an angled horizontal position. Your arms should fully extend above you, while keeping your body hovered above the floor.
“To make the inverted row more challenging you can lower the bar, walk your feet forward, raise your feet up on a box or add weight,” says Chris Matsui, a certified strength conditioning specialist and USA Weightlifting coach. If you need a modification, he suggests walking your feet further back, raising the bar up or bending your knees.
5. Split squats
The split squat is a single leg exercise that forces you to use your core for balance. It targets your glutes, quads and hamstrings. There are also several ways to do them to make them easier or harder, depending on your fitness level. “It’s not a technical exercise, so it’s easier to do with less compensation patterns to worry about,” Matsui says.
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The split squat can be done using dumbbells, a barbell, kettlebells or your own bodyweight. To make the exercise harder, you can place the back foot on an elevated surface to perform a Bulgarian split squat (another variation of the split squat) or to modify it, you can keep your back foot on the floor and use your own bodyweight.
6. Dumbbell squat to press
The dumbbell squat to press, also known as a thruster, is a compound exercise that starts in a front squat position and ends in an overhead press. This full body movement can be done using dumbbells, a barbell or kettlebells. It’s a power exercise intended to be performed quickly as you move from a squat to press.
“From a conditioning standpoint, with adequate weight and the right tempo, this full body movement can really jack up the cardiovascular demand,” says Shinekwa Kershaw, a personal trainer at Blink Fitness. She suggests that if you have knee limitations make sure to only squat to parallel or just above that. This can also be performed as a seated squat on a box or chair. If you have issues overhead pressing, another option Kershaw suggests is doing a squat to bicep curl.
7. Squats
The traditional squat is an important exercise because it targets the muscles in your lower body, such as your glutes, quads, hamstrings, abdominals — even your upper body. You can load the squat using dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells and sandbags. “Not only is the squat a functional move that mimics everyday life such as sitting and standing in a chair, it increases our anabolic hormones, and is important for spine and core strength,” explains LA-based fitness trainer Natalie Yco.
There are also different squat variations such as squat jumps, single leg squats, barbell back squats, front squats, goblet squats, sumo squats and more. “Squats strengthen the muscle around the knee to help prevent knee injuries and may help improve flexibility while moving through a deeper range of motion,” says Yco.
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If you’re new to squats and have yet to master the move, Yco suggests trying out wall squats with a stability ball placed between your back and a wall. Start in a standing position with your feet shoulder-width apart and back against the ball, and lower into a seated position by bending your knees at a 90-degree angle. The goal is to keep your lower back firmly against the ball. This modification takes stress off your lower back and makes it easier to squat down.
8. Kettlebell swing
Kettlebell exercises have become popular even beyond the Crossfit crowd. One exercise in particular that is a favorite among fitness experts is the kettlebell swing. The full body exercise uses your hips, core, hamstrings, glutes and upper body to produce an explosive movement. It’s an excellent way to get cardio in while also strengthening your posterior chain (the back of your body).
“I love the two-handed kettlebell swing because it is an exercise that builds total-body strength and also improves your cardiovascular fitness,” says Jennifer Conroyd, a certified ACE trainer and USA Track and Field Coach. Before performing the kettlebell swing (or any other kettlebell exercise), you should have an expert with kettlebell training teach you the proper technique. Kettlebell training is all about mastering the technique first, before going on to swing or snatch heavy kettlebells.
“It is truly a phenomenal all-in-one exercise and It’s important to focus on good posture and using your hips to generate the movement,” says Conroyd. If you’re just learning to swing, she suggests modifying the move by decreasing the weight of the kettlebell until you feel comfortable with the movement. If you have shoulder or lower back injuries you may not be the best candidate for kettlebell swings and should consult with your doctor or physical therapist before trying them first.
What if you could put on a suit that did your workout for you, a way to exercise without much time or effort? That’s the premise and promise of a hot and fast growing fitness niche called Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) training. Recent years have seen a slew of bestselling books focused on longevity, lifespan and wellspan, and almost universally, the doctors and researchers behind these have identified the extreme importance of growing muscle mass as we age, while singling out a specific health danger, visceral fat. The EMS workouts promise to tackle both of these hot button health issues and help users with more muscle, less fat, and to do it in sessions of 20 minutes or less a couple of times a week.
What Is EMS?
Can It Help You Get More Muscle, Less Fat?
EMS gyms, classes and workouts are relatively new and still largely off the public radar in the United States, but they have been popular in Europe and other parts of the world for decades. The oversimplified explanation of the concept is that an electric impulse causes an involuntary contraction of your muscle similar to but more intense than what you experience while lifting weights or doing other strength training, giving your muscle the exercise without you doing much. In the 1960s sports scientists in the former Soviet Union discovered that EMS could boost muscle strength quickly and used it to train elite athletes for the Olympics, and an article on this history in the Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal reported that one Russian scientist found force gains of 40% in the elite athletes using the technology.
The first full body suits for EMS training werre invented in Germany, where the fitness trend is very popular. This is star German actress Laura Preiss doing her workout in a Berlin park. (Photo by Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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In the 1980s medical devices using EMS for physical therapy and rehabilitation became commonplace, and if you’ve had knee or shoulder surgery you might already be familiar with the technology. In the beginning of this century the first full (mostly) body suits for workouts were introduced in Germany, spawning a massive new fitness trend—today there are thousands of EMS gyms across Europe and other parts of the world.
But as Brendan Kennedy, owner of EMS fitness brand Katalyst told me, in Europe these are sold as consumer electronics, whereas in the U.S. they are FDA-regulated medical devices, which greatly limited access for Americans. Katalyst was the first suit to get FDA clearance for sale to U.S. consumers and the first you could buy, while recent EMS gym chains in this country such as Body20, Manduu and Iron BodyFit provide class participants with suits. Katalyst has a model more similar to Peloton, where they sell the suit for use at home and support it with a robust app full of digitally connected classes, broken into four categories, strength, recovery, cardio and power, with many sub-options in each, such as abs or upper body.
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In recent years technology has greatly changed the exercise and fitness industries. As a health minded person who wrote a bestselling book about food and what we eat, and whose life and work has been closely associated with outdoor sports, these are subjects I pay a lot of attention to. I recently wrote here at Forbes about the boom in high-tech exercise recovery, as well as an article about a science-driven fitness and longevity resort retreat in Palm Springs, and an AI enabled all in one home strength training platform. So, the promise of EMS training, supported by many recent scientific and medical studies, and tons of anecdotal evidence, got my attention.
A complete at home EMS training kit from Katalyst, the first company in the US cleared by the FDA to sell to consumers.
Katalyst
Fast, Low Impact Strength Training For More Muscle, Less Fat
The commonality between the at home approach and the studio classes is that just about all providers target workouts of 25 minutes or less, and as the Body20 website explains, “EMS training activates up to 90% of your muscle fibers in just 20 minutes, offering a fast, efficient way to build strength, improve endurance, and achieve your fitness goals.” Manduu classes are 15-minutes, and the brand claims that “When the brain sends a signal to a muscle, only about 65% of muscle fiber is activated. By contrast, the external EMS stimulus penetrates nearly 100% of muscle tissue. This produces a workout that is simultaneously ultra-low impact and incredibly effective, gentle yet intense.” IronBody Fit comes from Europe (France), has 250 studios worldwide, and claims that 25 minutes of EMS equals a 4-hour conventional strength training session. Most basic Katalyst classes are 20-minutes long, but their extensive library also has lower intensity recovery and cardio add-ons of 5 or 10 minutes and these can be combined to suit users’ goals.
In the U.S., EMS sessions are especially popular with professional athletes and celebrities, and USA Today reported that actor Tom Holland used it to get ripped to play Spider Man and Kendall and Kyle Jenner did an EMS workout on The Kardashians, while supermodel Cindy Crawford was an early investor in Katalyst. Some of the biggest sports stars including Usain Bolt, Rafael Nadal and Christiano Ronaldo have been cited using EMS workouts. George Clooney bought the Katalyst system and told Esquire in 2025 that “My arms are twice the size they’ve ever been. It’s crazy.” There are multiple specialty EMS gyms in New York and Los Angeles, but it is still between hard to impossible to find elsewhere in this country, which is the big appeal of Katalyst, the first at-home product, and one that has been growing for years. In addition, with gym classes often running around $100 a session, the payback on a complete Katalasyt system ($3000) is less than four months.
Katalyst’s Kennedy is a lifetime fitness junkie and self-proclaimed “gym rat” who has done long distance cycling events and Ironman Triathlons. But he told me that since getting hooked on EMS he has not done a conventional weightlifting gym session in four years—and for the first time in his life, in his Fifties, has “six-pack abs.”
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This is how most people going to a gym to do weight or strength training do it: the old fashioned way.
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It was his wife, a former professional ballet dancer, who discovered the company and EMS workouts. “She was essentially a professional athlete, extremely fit and had just had our first child. She was looking for something to give her that same workout and feeling of a satisfaction and she loved it. I had been going to gyms for 40 years, but during COVID gyms closed, and Katalyst was just getting FDA clearance to sell to consumers so we bought suits in 2021, and took them with us when we traveled around the world, and about a year ago we decided to buy Katalyst.” The portability of the lightweight package combined with the quick time frame of workouts and suitability to just about any hotel room make it extra appealing to frequent travelers.
“Everything we are learning about longevity tells us that strength is essential, at any age, but after we hit 40 or 50 it starts to decline. Same for people on GLP-1 drugs, and we’ve seen doctors telling people they put on those to get a Katalyst suit. It’s a way for people who don’t have time to go to the gym or don’t like going to the gym to get an extremely efficient workout in a short period of time, with a much lower chance of getting hurt.”
This is EMS strength training the Katalsyt way.
Katalyst
Whether at home or in a class setting, EMS workouts typically involve a series of light bodyweight movements, such as bicep curls or overhead presses with no weights, squats and standing “crunches.” The workouts require no weights or other accessories, though Kennedy says he sometimes uses very light dumbbells to help maintain better technical form, and his wife likes to use resistance bands. Workouts can be done entirely while standing in front of the screen, with no laying on the floor. It sounds too good to be true.
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“Most fitness innovation is portability, ‘you can do this at home now’ or information, ‘you should do this,’ or motivation, ‘go do this,’ or entertainment that is distracting,” said Kennedy. “Katalyst has elements of that but the main thing that is different is that whether you are using some fancy piece of equipment on the wall or a fancy bike, you’re still doing the thing, you have to exert the effort. Katalyst is doing the thing to you. That’s really the key. I can have a workout on a day when I don’t necessarily want to workout and once I put on the suit I’m working out whether I want to or not, and in 20 minutes I’m getting the equivalent of a three to four hour weight workout. If I’m in the gym and do a curl, I’m using about 50% of my bicep. Even the best, most professional weightlifters might get to 55%. With Katalsyt, no matter how trained I am it’s firing 90% of that muscle. In a 20-minute workout, its four seconds on and four seconds off, so there are 150 impulses, and 26 pads for different muscle groups. That’s 3900 muscle impulses, but for me to do 3900 reps at the gym would take me at least four hours. It’s extremely efficient.”
Recent Studies on EMS Training
Numerous studies have shown the muscle and strength building effects of EMS compare favorably to considerably longer and more arduous traditional strength training sessions, and several also cite fat and visceral fat reductions. One conference paper aimed specifically at this followed a study group that did two 20-minute EMS workouts a week (basically what Katalyst recommends) for 10 weeks who were carefully measured before and after. The conclusion? “After 10 weeks of body weight training with WB-EMS, there is a significant difference in visceral fat between pre-test and post-test (P
A study available at the National Library of Medicine titled “Effects of Whole-Body Electromyostimulation versus High-Intensity Resistance Exercise on Body Composition and Strength: A Randomized Controlled Study,” compared doing a low-impact, low-effort EMS workout with a much more energetic HIT (High Intensity Training) strength workout in the gym. This was chosen because as the study says, HIT is widely considered the most efficient gym workout, “the gold standard reference HIT, for improving body composition and muscle strength.” Both groups exercised for 16 weeks with HIT participants doing workouts “to failure” and the study found nearly identical gains in muscle mass and strength, and concluded that, “In summary, WB-EMS can be considered as a time-efficient but pricy option to HIT-resistance exercise for people aiming at the improvement of general strength and body composition.”
Even most EMS proponents don’t claim that you can’t get as good a workout the old fashioned way, and most of the scientific literature I’ve found supports that, the notion that EMS is on par with longer and more strenuous traditional strength workouts. The advantage is that it’s much faster, much less strenuous, low impact, and if you don’t need to leave home and don’t need to have a room dedicated to machines and weight plates, you are much more likely to actually do it, which is a huge stumbling block in American health and fitness.
Another study, “Muscle Hypertrophy and Architectural Changes in Response to Eight-Week Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Training in Healthy Older People,” found EMS to be a “useful mean for combating age-related sarcopenia,” or loss of muscle mass and strength while ageing, and noted that, “Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), the application of an electric current to muscles in order to trigger muscle contractions, has been long used as an alternative intervention to resistance training in order to improve or attenuate muscle mass and strength losses. NMES has proven to be efficient across different populations, ranging from healthy adults and athletes to people with muscle weakness.”
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Finally, a 2023 meta-analysis of 23 studies on EMS in Medicine Journal “concluded that WB-electromyostimulation has significant positive effects on muscle mass, body fat, strength, and power.” Those are all good things to have positive effects on.
I have been doing a lot of different kinds of exercise for decades and have been constantly tweaking and refining my workouts based on the latest research into health, fitness and ageing, and if it works as fans claim, I’m eager to add EMS to my routine. After all, I’m in the demographic that wants more muscle, less fat. Most of the studies I’ve read run from 8-16 weeks, so I’m going to give that a try with the Katalyst workouts, as where I live there is no gym-based class alternative. I’ll do it while using a smart scale with bioelectrical impedance analysis to track my muscle mass, body fat and visceral fat, and we’ll see how it goes.
Lenny Kravitz has shared the secret to his incredible physique, but it’s not what you’d expect.
Alongside his intensive workout regimen, what the 62-year-old singer wears while working out also plays a huge role in keeping him in check – namely, his famed leather pants.
Lenny Kravitz works out just as he performs: in leather pants. Adam Berry
The star is known for performing in tight, restrictive outfits like denim and leather, and it makes sense to him to train in the same materials.
“I perform onstage in leather, denim, whatever, so those are the pants I wear to train,” he recently told Men’s Health.
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“It also means I can fit in a workout anytime, anywhere.”
It was words from his good friend Denzel Washington that gave him the idea, sharing that the actor told him, “The pants don’t lie.”
“I can gauge everything by how I’m in my pants,” he said.
“Like, if my pants are a little tight, I know I’m getting outta’ shape.”
Kravitz is not the only health-conscious celebrity with a wacky approach to fitness.
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Mark Wahlberg previously revealed his crazily early wake-up time to squeeze a workout in.
The 62-year-old prefers working out in restrictive materials. Instagram/@lennykravitz
In 2022, the actor shared the details of his workout schedule with a photographer on the streets of New York.
“Tomorrow I’m getting up [at] 2.30, in the gym [by] 3.30, finish about 5.30, go to work 7.30,” he said, as per Fox News.
He also shared the rest of his bizarre routine to his Instagram stories back in 2018. It read:
Mark Wahlberg wakes up incredibly early to get to the gym. Instagram
2:30am wake up
2:45am prayer time
3:15am breakfast
3:40 – 5.15am workout
5:30am post-workout meal
6:00am shower
8:00am snack
9:30am cryo chamber recovery
10:30am snack
11:00am family time/meetings/work calls
1:00pm lunch
2:00pm meetings/work calls
3:30pm pick up kids @school
3.30pm snack
4:00pm workout
5:00pm shower
5:30pm dinner/family time
7.30pm bedtime
Fans were shocked by the early bedtime, though it makes sense with his early start time.
Meanwhile, The Hills star Audrina Patridge swears by an unusual hack for a home workout while making the most of her time: vacuuming in heels.
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Audrina Patridge swears by vacuuming in heels for an at-home workout. Getty
“When I’m sitting in front of the TV, I lift five-pound weights or do squats,” she said, as per Just Jared.
“And I wear heels when I vacuum because it works my calves and my butt.”
Liam Gallagher is another celebrity with a peculiar workout habit, having been spotted by The Sun running backwards on the streets of north London in 2014.
Liam Gallagher was once spotted running backwards in London Getty
The Oasis star took part in the “retro running” trend, which has been used widely by athletes who play sports where they need to go in multiple directions.
The exercise targets different muscle groups and agility.
“We naturally lose muscle mass, reaction speed and balance as we age,” says this elite Hollywood coach who’s trained everyone from Margot Robbie and Scarlet Johansson to Richard Madden and Pedro Pascal — but recommends doing step-ups to undo the damage of aging in your glutes, quads and calves
There’s a reason why some of the most effective exercises tend to mirror movements in real life. It’s not because personal trainers and coaches lack imagination, but because the body doesn’t care how creative your programming is — it cares whether you can climb a flight of stairs without grabbing the banister, for example, or if you can catch yourself from a stumble.
These are just a few of the benchmarks that matter in later life, and for elite performance coach David Higgins — who has trained everyone from Margot Robbie and Scarlett Johansson to Samuel L. Jackson, David Harbour, Game of Thrones’ Richard Madden and the entire cast of The Batman, among many others — one exercise sits at the top of the list for anyone over 50: the step-up. Here’s why.
Lower-body power matters so much after 50
Most people understand that strength declines with age. What they underestimate, however, is how quickly it begins to matter in practical terms, despite not being able to be measured on the best smartwatches’ fitness age metrics.
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“Lower body power becomes critical after 50 because we naturally lose muscle mass, reaction speed and balance as we age,” says Higgins. “The glutes, quads and calves are what keep you upright, stable and independent.”
If you can’t generate force through the floor, he says, “everyday movements like climbing stairs, getting out of a chair or catching yourself from a fall become harder.” The step-up addresses all of this in a single movement: “it trains strength, balance and coordination all at once and mirrors real life better than most gym exercises.” It’s slightly similar to the farmer’s carry, an application of a real-life movement.
It’s also the reason Higgins places it above more popular alternatives. Walking is excellent, of course, but doesn’t load the body enough to preserve muscle. Squats are bilateral — they share the work equally between both legs, which means they don’t expose or address the kind of side-to-side imbalances that tend to develop quietly over decades. Step-ups, however, are unilateral, as each leg works independently, building the stability and gait mechanics that bilateral training misses.
“If I could only choose one lower-body movement after 50,” says Higgins, “step-ups would be near the top because they combine strength, stability, balance, gait mechanics and unilateral control in one movement; they bridge the gap between rehab and performance.”
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Watch the tutorial video below for advice on how to do a step up:
The mistake most older adults make
Before thinking about adding height, load or additional reps, Higgins is more concerned with something more fundamental: the quality of the movement itself. “The biggest mistake older adults make is chasing fatigue instead of quality movement,” he says. “Rushing through reps, leaning through the hips, or pushing through the stronger side of the body.” Your nervous system, he says, “has to trust the movement before your body can own it.”
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Rushing through step-ups doesn’t just reduce the benefit — it reinforces the compensations you’re trying to correct. If you’re relying on the trailing leg to push you up, or leaning forward as you step, you’re not actually building the unilateral strength and hip control the exercise is there to develop.
Instead, Higgins’ coaching cue is worth memorising: “push the floor away and finish tall through the glutes.” Most people pull themselves up through the knee, instead of driving through the hip. It’s a subtle distinction, but makes an enormous difference to where the effort is actually made.
How to get started — and when to progress
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To perform the step-up, stand facing a sturdy bench, box, or step. Place one foot fully on the platform, then drive through that heel to lift your body up until both feet are on the step. Step back down with control and repeat for the desired reps before switching legs. Keep your chest up and avoid pushing off excessively with the trailing leg.
For step height, beginners should start with a low box, roughly ankle to mid-shin height. “You want control, not compensation,” he says. Fitter adults with solid mobility, balance and hip control can work up to knee height.
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As for volume, Higgins prescribes 2–3 sets of 8–12 controlled reps per leg. “Tempo matters more than volume,” he says. Drive through the whole foot, stand tall at the top and lower slowly under control.
Higgins confirms that just your bodyweight is sufficient resistance to begin with and, for many people over 50, it’s exactly where they should stay — probably for longer than they’d expect. “Most people over 50 need to relearn movement patterns before adding load,” he says. “Once control, balance and posture improve, adding dumbbells or a weighted vest is a brilliant progression.” The dumbbells can wait. As for frequency? Two to three sessions a week is enough to see real benefit, Higgins says. “Consistency beats intensity every time.”
Precautions
Step-ups are accessible to most people, but Higgins flags a few situations worth considering. Anyone with severe knee osteoarthritis, significant balance issues or acute hip pain should approach the exercise carefully and ideally with professional guidance. “Often it’s not that the exercise is wrong,” he says, “it’s that the height is too ambitious or the body isn’t controlling the movement properly yet.” Low and slow is always the right answer.
What leg-day moves are your go-tos in the gym? Have you tried the step-up yet? Let us know below.
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