{"id":42799,"date":"2017-05-15T09:43:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T07:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/uncategorized\/exercise-of-the-week-butt-kicks\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T07:43:04","slug":"exercise-of-the-week-butt-kicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/blog\/learn\/exercise-of-the-week-butt-kicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise of the week: Butt Kicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>How does fitness evolve?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Learn how to perform Butt Kicks the EVO way. #EVOway #EVOfitness<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Butt kicks\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/191980923?h=873fa346ec&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>WHAT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Butt Kicks are a great functional exercise that can be used as part of a warm up, cool down or active recovery between sets. More than just a pulse raiser, they will also benefit your running technique.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>HOW<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Run on the spot and pull the heel to the butt. Aim to keep the hamstrings as relaxed as possible to maximize efficiency. Maintain a quick tempo (180 bpm) using a metronome for guidance, if necessary.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>WHY<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When performed correctly with rhythm (180 bpm) this exercise will quickly build running-specific hamstring pull technique. Proper rhythm will allow for optimum elasticity in the foot\/ankle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to share your workout performance with us via Facebook and Instagram!<\/p>\n<p>Do you already know our <a href=\"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/workout-of-the-month-kinesis-core-workout\/\">Workout of the month<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does fitness evolve? Learn how to perform Butt Kicks the EVO way. #EVOway #EVOfitness WHAT Butt Kicks are a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Exercise of the week: Butt Kicks | EVO Fitness","_seopress_titles_desc":"How does fitness evolve? Butt Kicks are a great functional exercise that can be used as part of a warm up, cool down or active recovery between sets.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}