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Setting up a Dumbbell Full Body Workout
Setting up a full body dumbbell workout is extremely easily. According to Craig Ballantyne, creator of Turbulence Training, you should always start off with a warm-up. He prefers to use a basic bodyweight warm up. Craig believes that a bodyweight wa...
Best Dumbbell Exercises for Beginners
Dumbbells are my favorite form of exercise, and one I recommend to all beginners. Most beginners end up joining a gym and follow a program full of machines. Machines actually limit your range of movement and even put you in greater risk for injury. ...
Dumbbells Workouts for Beginners
For many beginners, working out can be overwhelming. After all, there are millions of fitness programs out there, and most of the contradict each other. Well, I’m going to try to get rid of some of the confusion. First of all, most people think...
Don’t Hurt Yourself! Top 2 Ways to Improve your Kettlebell Technique
Everyone knows that Kettlebell training is tough, exciting, and produces incredible results. However, if you don’t perform the exercises properly, you can hurt yourself. This is why learning proper technique is absolutely crucial to Kettlebell ...
Home Fitness Workout: No Weights, No Problem - Well, Unless You Push Yourself Too Hard
Did I ever tell you about the time I fainted while working out? It’s a story was embarrassed to talk about for so long, until now. I just realized that it doesn’t matter. In fact, this story just might be a testament to the power of bodyw...
Build Muscle and Lose Fat with Pullups, Pushups, and Bodyweight Squats in 30 Minutes or Less
Here are my top 3 reasons why I stopped going to the gym: Kept getting distracted by all the beautiful girls walking around. Either had to wait for equipment, or had to take my dumbbells into some random corner of the gym because the gym was just to...
7 Important Benefits of a Bodyweight Routine
I love bodyweight training for a number of reasons, but I’ll just list the top 7 reasons why bodyweight training is so great: Bodyweight workouts help you drop fat like magic. I usually organize bodyweight exercises into high intensity circuit...
Cardio Home Workouts: The Key to Fat Loss in a Bad Economy
It’s time to throw your gym membership out the door. In a bad economy, you need to cut back where you can. Exercising at home is probably the best way to save a whole bunch of money and get into great shape! What are my Cardio Options? Perform...
6 Major Considerations You Need to Take Before Setting Up Muscle Building Workouts
There are a lot of things that go into developing the right muscle building workout. Instead of just giving you a little glimpse on a daily basis, I thought why not just give you the full picture. But then I thought, it might be too much information ...
6 Mistakes From a Bodyweight Training Addict
I’m addicted to bodyweight training. I think about working out 40 times a day and is one of the main reasons why I own a fitness blog. Here are 6 mistakes I’ve made (and still sometimes do) in the past. Please learn from them because they...
6 Beginner Bodyweight Exercises For a Strong Upper Body
Here are six easy to follow beginner bodyweight exercises to help you develop a stronger upper body: Pushups If you don’t know how to perform pushups, there are a number of progressions you can follow: Decline Pushups - Place your hands on a s...
3 Research Methods To Boost your Bodyweight Exercise
Yesterday I pointed out how research was very important in your quest to improve with bodyweight training. Today we will cover the research tools you can use to improve your fitness levels. Some of these resources are free, and others are not free. ...
For Effective Lower Body Training, Use These 5 Bodyweight and Dumbbell Exercises in Your Programs
Most people think that they can’t get a good lower body workout in the comfort of their own homes. This is false. You can get a great lower body workout if you just combine bodyweight and dumbbell exercises. The following are 5 of the most effe...
2 High Intensity Training Methods for Beginners to Help you Design Body Weight Workouts You Can Do Anywhere
As a beginner, I remember scouring the internet for the PERFECT workout. I have since learned that there is no perfect workout. Fitness is a process that you continually improve upon. The following are two training methods that beginners can use to d...
Overweight? Forget Cardio, Do Bodyweight Training: 3 Exercises To Get You Started
Overweight individuals are constantly bombarded by diet products, personal trainers, and useless infomercials. Forget the gym, forget diet books, forget infomercial products and most importantly - forget cardio! I’m going to show you three simp...
3 Ab Exercise for Beginners
The following are three intense abdominal exercises for beginners: Crunch - The crunch has gotten a bad name over the past few years. It’s because most individuals do not perform it properly. The key to any abdominal exercise is to keep your ...
You Don’t Need a Pullup Bar to Perform Perfect Pullups
Pullups are probably one of the toughest bodyweight exercises out there. Not enough people do them. They say they don’t have a pullup bar, and end up buying a cheap resistance band and end up performing pull downs for their back. So they excel ...
Obese? Here is a Really Simple Exercise Routine You can Follow
In my post “10 Ways to Fatten Up your Kids,” I talked about my desire to start helping out obese/morbidly obese individuals. I’m not an expert, but I have noticed one important thing about obese individuals: they lack mobility. Well...
10 Ways to Fatten Up Your Kids
The habits I formed when I was a kid followed me all the way to college. Although I was never obese (because I just cared too much about the way I looked), I had a weight problem due to horrible eating habits. My mom bought a lot of sugary foods. She...
How to Create a Perfectly Balanced Full Body Bodyweight Workout
I’ve come across a lot of full body workouts. Most of them are poorly written simply because they lack balance. Lets examine what a traditional full body workout would like. Most individuals categorize body parts in the following way: Back - P...
An Introduction to Kettlebell Training, Plus 3 Intense Workouts
Aside from bodyweight training, kettlebell training is one of most effective total body training styles available on the market today. What am I talking about? Today? No, kettlebells have been in existence for a long time! Kettlebells or “girya...
The New Rules of Bodyweight Training
I’m tired of all the garbage written about how one should train in the gym. Oh, you need to do this, and you need to do that. Forget the rules, and create your own set of parameters. The following three are rules I’ve used with lots of su...
Practical Advice for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Trainees
Image by AllPosters.com What I am about to tell you will put every personal trainer, muscle magazine, and supplement company out of business. There is no one on this planet that knows how to perform an exercise right, nor do they know what training ...
16 Basic Fitness Tips Every Beginner Should Follow
Trainees have a lot of questions, and it’s tough to answer all those questions at once. But, what if I could create a document that had the bulk of all that information in a simple, easy to read format. The information would be concise, but not det...
Workout Without Weights: Use The Gym You Were Born With
We all know how much I love bodyweight training. When I first began this blog, I was going to focus my training specifically on portable equipment such as dumbbell, kettlebells, and resistance bands. My bodyweight training consisted only of push-ups,...
Oprah Winfrey’s Proven Formula for Fat Gain: Diet and Training Tips for Easy Fat Gain!
Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host and celebrity with a loyal following. In her latest issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, she states that she has let her weight balloon back up to 200 lbs. Check out this podcast to hear my thoughts about Oprah Winfrey...
