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Strength Training - Pro Athlete Bicep Curls

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Donna Wilkinson
D.C. Divas Women’s Professional Football Team
www.donnawilkinson.net  

Donna Wilkinson is a Professional Football Player, successful Entrepreneur and a Leading Edge Wellness Consultant. Known as “The Animal,” Donna has been a dominant force on the D.C. Divas Women’s Professional Football Team for the past seven years. Over these seven years Donna has played Defensive End, Fullback, Running Back, Linebacker, Tight End, and Punter. Donna is the 1st woman in league history to rush for over 1000 yards in a season, and led the NWFA in rushing in 2003 with 1,267 yards in 10 games and was the Divas offensive MVP. Donna has led the Divas to 5 straight Division Titles, 4 straight Undefeated Regular Seasons and 1 World Championship! She has been an NWFA All-Star and a Divas Team Captain. In 2003 Donna became the 1st Female in history to win the Washington Pig Skin Club “John W. Posey” Award - professional athlete of the year - also awarded to Jeremiah Trotter, Lavernues Coles, Todd Heap and Ed Reed. Donna engages in earning multiple streams of income. She works with people who are attracting greater prosperity into their lives, and those who want to achieve balance in the Five Pillars of Health (mind, body, family, society & finances). Donna has B.S. degrees in Business Administration and Health Fitness Management from Columbia Union College, and uses a variety of tools including the “Certified Wellness Home” program, the Nightingale/Conant “Lead the Field” program, Breakthrough Wellness Technologies, and her Personal Training background to help people achieve life success.

Strength Training - Pro Athlete Bicep Curls

In this video, professional football player Donna “The Animal” Wilkinson of the D.C. Divas takes you on a personal journey into her strength training workout. Working with Velocity Sports Program Director Kenny Carrington, Donna goes through a variety of the basic power, strength and explosive techniques and exercises that will improve any athletes’ performance. A proper weight training facility is required for most of the exercises in this program. This video is designed for individuals in good shape, and athletes over the age of 13 under proper supervision who desire to take their game to the next level. Each lift must be performed with the proper weight adjustment for that individual. This video series includes a variety of tips and techniques that will make you strong and explosive!

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Kenny Carrington: Hi! I am Kenny Carrington, the Director of Velocity Sports Performance in Alexandria. I am here training with the Pro, Donna The Animal Wilkinson.

Last segment is upper body strength still and we are going to finish off with bicep curls.

Today, what we are going to do is a drop set curls, we are going to do one set, but its 60 reps in total because its such a high number of reps thats why we are only doing one set. So, what she is going to start is she is going to start with curls both arms at the same time. Starting with 25s and doing ten reps. After she has finished ten reps she is going to keep dropping down, keeping good athletic position elbows in tight, bringing the arms up to the shoulders. So, 60 reps in total.

Two, three, go faster, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, tenSo, she is going to put the weight down and grab the next set of weights right away and start it to the next set of ten. good, one, two, three, try to take your rock out, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, good.

Putting the weight down, dropping it, getting the next, try to get the arms a little straighter if you can, there you go, one, two, three, keep the shoulder blades pinched, three, four, come on, come on come on there you go. There you go half way, come on, half left.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, there you go, eight, nine, ten, good, two more, two more. There we go, come on, one, keep those shoulders pinched, two, there you go, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. There we go, last ten, last ten, last ten. There were go, thats one, come on, all the way down, two, there you go, three, four, all the way down, five, six, its easy seven, come on, eight, two more, nine, ten.

That concludes our upper body strength.

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