Archive for February, 2008
Top 6 Stretching Exercises Instructional Video
Stretching should be performed before and after exercising. Stretching prevents injuries and rehabilitates muscle injuries. You should stretch your muscles before a workout as a part of your warm up. After the workout, stretch your muscles to promote flexibility, especially after a weight training. If you strength train and do not stretch you eventually become muscle-bound or lose flexibility in your muscles which is bad for athletes and causes injury.
Another 300 Workout Instructional Video
This is a great conditioning workout used by the actors in the movie 300 to build awesome 6 pack abs. Go through the entire workout below twice for time. Try to improve by performing the exercises in less time or increase kettlebell and medicine ball weight. If you do not have kettlebells or a medicine ball you can use dumbbells or weight plates to perform these exercises.
If you cannot complete 25 pullups get assistance from a partner (they assist you up and down grabbing your legs), use a chair to perform negative reps (stand on the chair and start at the top of the pullup to lower yourself down as slow as possible), or like the video use exercise bands.
300 Workout
25 Pullups
25 Kettlebell sumo deadlift with a highpull
25 Pushups
25 Box Jumps
25 Floor wipers (1 left and 1 right = 1 rep)
25 Medicine ball squat clean and press
Outdoor Lunge Variation Exercise Instructional Video
These are great variations on lunges performed on stairs. Lunges are great for your lower body (leg muscles and glutes).
The Kettlebell Bent Press Instructional Video
This exercise was a favorite of strongmen from the early 1900s. The bent press allows strongmen to lift much more weight than a standard one arm overhead press because more muscles of the body are engaged (more of a full body lift). You can use a kettlebell, dumbbell, or barbell. The bent press exercise works your shoulder, back, abdomen, triceps, legs (quads and hamstrings), and your butt (glutes) muscles. Unlike traditional overhead lifts, the bent press will improve hip mobility, spinal stability, and shoulder stabilization making this a perfect lift for athletes.