Looking to switch up your weight lifting routine?

Plate Toe Touches

1. Lay on your back

2. Hold a plate directly over your chest and extend your arms upward

3. Raise your legs straight until they are perpendicular to the floor

4. Exhale as you reach towards your toes with the plate raising your back off the floor

5. Fully contract your abs as you do this

6. In a controlled manner slowly lower yourself back to your starting position

Plated Body Squat

1. With a solid grip on the plate, hug it to your chest

2. Place your feet approximately hip-width apart

3. Ensuring your chest doesn't lean forward, keep your back straight

4. Without letting your knees extend past your toes, squat and then rise again

Reverse Plate Curl

1. Stand straight with your feet shoulder-width apart

2. With elbows slightly bent and arms extended downward, grip the plate with both hands palms facing you

3. While exhaling use just your forearms to lift the plate to your chest until your arms are completely bent

4. Hold this contraction for a moment

5. Inhale as you slowly return the plate to the starting position

Russian Twists

1. Take a situp position and grip a plate, a hand on each side

2. Twist your torso to one side while exhaling and contracting your abs

3. Once there, inhale

4. Move back to the starting position as you exhale, then inhale upon arrival

5. Twist your torso to the opposite side while exhaling and contracting your abs

7. Repeat steps 3 and 4

Lateral Plate Raises

1. Stand with a plate gripped in hand at your side

2. Keep your back straight and contract your core

3. Slowly lift the plate up and out to the side until your arm is parallel with the ground, while also maintaining a slight bend at the elbow and making sure not to shrug your shoulders, keep your shoulder blades down

4. Lower the plate back down in a slow and controlled manner

Plate Front Raise

1. Stand with a straight back holding a plate with a hand on each side and palms facing each other

2. Extend your arms with a slight bend in your elbows

3. Lower the plate to your starting position at waist level

4. Raise the plate until it is slightly above shoulder level and hold contracting your muscles

5. Lower the plate back to the starting position

Plate Preacher Press

1.  Stand with back straight and a plate sandwiched between your flat palms

2. Push your palms together to ensure a solid grip on the plate

3. Starting with the plate at approximately chest level raise it upward to overhead level

4. Maintaining your pressed palms, lower back down again