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While Raspberry picking, I came across this unusual exercise, Raspberry squats.

A few hours of raspberry picking in a squat position gives you a great work out of the butt muscles, hamstrings and quadriceps.
While there is some conjecture on the placement of the knees, generally you should aim to have the knees over the big toe and butt sticking out like you are about to sit down on the toilet, remember to look straight ahead while keeping the chest out.

Main points when performing a squat:
1.Keep your feet shoulder width apart
2.Keep your shoulders back and chest out
3.Make sure that your bodies moves as a single movement, think of a spring compressing.
4.Keep your heels on the ground and your knees over your feet

Common mistakes when performing squats:
1.Heels lifting off the ground
2.Allowing the knees to turn in or out

Main muscles used:
1.Gluteus Maximus (butt Muscle)
2.Hamstrings
3.Quadriceps

Performing a squat correctly is important as it forms the foundation of a number of body movements that we perform everyday, think about trying to reach down to the ground to pick something up. It’s better to performing a squat rather than have a straight legs and bending at the lower back.

This unusual exercise is ore bucket tipping while performing a lunge in a mine.
This photo was taken within the last 30 years and highlights the challenging work conditions experienced by miners, whether in 2010 or in the era of this photo.

The guys must have been extremely fit as this is back breaking work with each ore cart weighing a couple of tons. It’s great to see the miner performing this movement with a bent front knee and straight back.

Remember when performing any exercise or work related activity to use the correct exercise technique. When performing a lunge, make sure that you keep your hips underneath your shoulders and that your front knee doesn’t pass over your big toes.

As you raise your body from their lunge position, remember to place your weight through your heal.

You see all things while out in the park running bootcamps and this one rates as one of the best unusual exercises, using dual bicycles to move their bed.

While it looks incredibly difficult, these fine people were happy to pose for a photo and continue on their way.
One thing missing was a sign saying “wide load”, great for the core as you must ride the bike with one hand while supporting the bed with the other.

Recently a whole group of people moved the entire contents of a house to a new location. I can see some potential for dual bedding bicycle racers in the future.

While taking the photo’s for our Fitstylers page, I had Michael perform 30 jumps in a row. An unusual exercise that I have named Fitstyler jumps.

This highly explosive plyometric exercise is great for an all over body workout with it’s shorts burst of high intensity energy required to perform successfully.

Essentially jumping continuously for 3 -5 minutes is guaranteed to to quickly fatigue the quads and glutes.

Looking at an unusual exercise to involve the whole family, try beach channel digging.

Just remember to be care when shoveling the sand that you keep a straight back and to alternate the side at which you are shoveling or digging from.

It’s amazing how much energy you expend in such a short period of time.
Every year this has been a local tradition in a small Victoria coastal town, with the river flows being reduced by lower levels of rainfall and irrigation, sometimes there is little water left by the time it reaches our oceans.