For the most part, the weather here in Tucson, AZ is absolutely wonderful right now. This is that time of year that really makes it worthwhile to live here. The temperatures are perfect. There’s very little chance of rain, and the trees and flowers are absolutely exploding with vitality.
How about you? Are you exploding with vitality? Have your workouts gotten boring and you need to switch it up? Sick of seeing the same faces at the gym and waiting for someone to finish supersetting bicep curls in the squat rack? It’s time to take it outside!
If you have an robust arsenal of bodyweight exercises at your fingertips, you can have some really great workouts at your local park. If you use the correct exercises, you can achieve any goal. You can build lean muscle, enhance your cardiovascular health, burn fat, and most importantly have fun! I love using bodyweight exercises in a fat loss program, and use almost entirely bodyweight exercises for the free boot camp I run Saturday mornings. (Contact me if you’re in Tucson and are interested in taking part in that.)
Over the years, I’ve learned a lot of cool bodyweight exercises, but when I first started out on my own fitness journey, it would have been really handy to have a nice, big list of bodyweight exercises, and some well thought out programs to show me how to best use them. If you’re starting out on your fitness journey, you can have that information at your fingertips! Craig Ballantyne has put together a great package of information for you, and has put it on sale this week.
Click here to check out the awesome deal he’s got going on.
Here’s what Craig says about these programs:
For the first time ever, you can get access to these addictive bodyweight exercises – featuring the progressively challenging 6-Month “Turbulence Training Bodyweight Manual” and the “The Bodyweight Cardio No-Equipment Workouts” – for over 75% off the regular price when you order this week ONLY!
He’s selling all three programs for only $19.95! I’ve used some of Craig’s programs before, and they’re top notch. All of his programs are well written, authoritative, fun, and effective.
These same workouts have helped tons of people get in shape or bust out of ruts in the gym. If you’re ready to see some real changes in your body, and don’t want to invest in costly workout equipment, then get these programs, get outside, and get to work!
Happy New Year everyone! I hope all of your celebrations were fun and that you are poised and ready to make 2011 your most incredible year yet! I want to help you in any way I can, so I’m going to be doing a weekly series of blog posts where I answer YOUR fitness questions.
Send Me Your Fitness Questions
“But aren’t there any exercises that can be done to reduce belly fat?” That’s the usual response I get after providing the above answer. The truth is that there are exercises that help, but they’re not what you would think they are. High Intensity Interval Training has been proven to be an excellent way to burn fat, even more so than slow, boring cardio (that’s an article for another time). Taking exercises that get the heart rate up and performing them in a circuit or in an interval format is what you need to do. Keep it short, hard, and fast and get that heart rate racing! Good exercises for this are wall ball or cleans with a medicine ball, squat jumps, burpees, and mountain climbers if using your body weight or intense dumbbell complexes. Not a sit up in that list, but everything uses most of the body, or intense plyometric leg movement.
There you go, your road map to flatter abs. If you’d like an example of the type of workout I just described, get in touch for a free workout and fitness consultation! I’d love to share these exercises and more with you. Have a strong New Year, and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS Feed so you can keep up on future fitness Q and A articles. Have a question? Leave it in the comments below and I’ll answer it in a future article!
I’ll let you in on a little secret… I don’t like to do sit-ups. I do them, and I have my athletes do them, because they are a good exercise, but I don’t enjoy them. I have a hard time finding an application in my day to day life where the movement behind a sit-up translates directly to my day to day activities. Plus, I just plain find sit-ups to be boring.
Considering that the words “core training” are a staple in fitness magazines and gadget informercial sales pitches, you may be wondering what kinds of “core” exercises I enjoy doing, and suggest others do as well. Obviously, since so many people are talking about training the core, it must be important, right?
Lets first start off by discussing what the core actually is.
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