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Fat Loss Workouts with TT Hot Zone Workout Warmup
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CLICK HERE for a FREE WORKOUT!! www.turbulencetraining.com This is the August 2008 Hot Zone Workout. The 4 hot zones of the body are the pressing muscles and the chest, the torso area, the back of the legs and the upper back area. If you train and exercise for one of those areas, everything else will get trained and boost your metabolism. Those are the 4 hot zone areas were going to be going after in each workout (A, B & C) and even the warmup workout. This is the bodyweight warmup for the Hot Zone Workout. We’re going to start with 4 exercises and make sure we hit the chest, abdominals, the back of the legs and the upper back. Start with a Y-Squat. Put your hands up in the Y position and keep your shoulder blades back. This will work the upper back and the back of the legs. Next is elevated pushups which will work the upper chest and abdominals. Place one hand on a dumbbell or something about 4-6 inches off the floor. Doall reps on one side and then switch to the other side. 1-Leg Romanian Deadlifts are next. This is one of my favourite exercises to really get my hamstrings warmed up for squats. Stand on one leg, keeping a slight bend to it. Push the other leg straight back and feel a nice strong stretch in your hamstring and come back up. You will also use your glute when you come back up. You can use the wall for balance if you need to. Do 8-10 reps on each side. Your next warmup exercise is a Stick-Up. Keep your heels about 6-inches from the wall and press your back …
Gain Muscle and Lose Fat with TT Buff Dudes and Hot Chicks Workout Warmup
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CLICK HERE for a FREE Workout www.turbulencetraining.com This 3-exercise bodyweight circuit will serve as a warm-up to the main workout. So, starting out you will do the Touchdown Forward Lunge. For this, you will raise your arms straight up overhead as though signalling a touchdown. Next, lunge forward, getting a good stretch as you come down and then use your lead foot to drive back up. Alternate sides. By placing your hands overhead it will help open up your chest while also bringing your shoulder blades together. Next up in this bodyweight warm-up is the Close-Grip Pushup exercise. With hands shoulder-width apart and tuckingyour elbows into your sides perform a pushup. If you can’t do regular close-grip pushups, then you can just do them from the kneeling position. The last exercise to do is the Waiter’s Bow. You’ll find that this exercise really stretches your hamstrings and gets you ready for the Romanian Deadlift exercise. If you’re not comfortable with the RDL exercise, then this at least gives you a chance to practice the movement. So, for this exercise, bend your knees slightly, grab the skin fold of your low back and place your other arm across your chest. From here, you will bend forward as though you are bowing to the table. So, push your hips back and keep your back flat. You will find that the skin fold tries to get away from you and that will be as far as you go before squeezing your glutes to return to the start position. That’s it for all the exercises …
15 Minute Express Workout A
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www.turbulencetraining.comVisit Turbulence Training to get your FREE sample fat burning workout. Click here to get started www.TurbulenceTraining.com Welcome to the TT Express workouts. These workouts are designed to give you the maximum results in the minimum amount of time. You will be doing the interval and strength training as well as a warm-up in these 15-minute circuits. You will go through as many of these circuits as you can in 15 minutes. You will want to set up a timer or use your watch to time your exercises for 30 seconds. If the exercise requires you to do one side, you will do 30 seconds on that side and then another 30 seconds on the other side. Start out with lying on the ground doing 30 seconds of stability ball leg curls. Lie down on the mat with your heels on the ball. Bridge your hips up and use your hamstrings to curl the ball in and out. Make sure when you curl in, your hips stay up and you maintain that bridge. Move into 30 seconds of kneeling pushups. If you are strong enough to do regular pushups, that is ok. Keep your body in a straight line as you lower down and drive back up. Keep it controlled on the way down and drive back up. Your abs will be braced and you will work your triceps, shoulders and chest to push up. The next exercises are great for mobility of the upper back called “W’s” and “T’s”. Rest the ball just under the chest. For the “W’s”, put your arms out in front of you as you pull your shoulder blades apart. Squeeze them back …
Stability Ball Circuit for Abs and Legs
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CLICK HERE for a FREE WORKOUT!! www.turbulencetraining.com You’re probably thinking two workouts per week at only 20 minutes are not enough to lose fat. To be honest, however, if you combine a great diet with those two workouts, then you’ll experience incredible changes. But, if you want to do a little more then you can do my favourite stability ball circuit on your off days. This is an excellent way to strengthen your abdominals as well as your hamstrings in a way that is hard to replicate with barbell and dumbbell exercises. This 10-15 minute circuit will be six exercises added on at the end of a Depletion workout or you can use it as a third workout and include intervals at the end. For the circuit, you will complete each exercise with no rest in between. Once you have completed a circuit, rest one minute and then repeat two to three times. For the stability ball circuit you will alternate between ab exercises and lowerback exercises. To start, you will do the stability ball ab rollout. What you want to do is place your knees on a mat, your hands on top of the ball, and then roll out and back in. Now, there are many different ways to do this exercise. For instance, you can roll out and back in quickly or you can go really slow on the way out and quick on the way back in. The important thing is to mix it up every time you work out. Also, be sure to keep your abs braced and your body in a straight line throughout the exercise. After the rollout exercise, you will do …
5 Best Lower Body Kettlebell Exercises
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CLICK HERE for a FREE Workout!! www.kettlebellworkouts.com In this video you will discover the 5 best lower body kettlebell exercises. The first exercise is the Double Kettlebell Front Squat. So, start out holding the KBs at shoulder height, push your hips back (don’t bend at the knees first), break parallel, squatting as low as you can while keeping your abs braced. Then drive back up. The next exercise is called the Tactical Lunge, or a regular lunge with a twist. First, lunge backward and as you are lunging take the KB underneath your front thigh and switch hands. Alternate sides. Be sure to keep your torso upright throughout. The next lower body KB exercise is the Pistol Squat. So, place the KB at chest height and balance on one leg with your other leg out in front. Next, squat down as low as you can go, and drive back up. Doall reps for one side and then switch. The 1-Leg Rear Deadlift is another great exercise to do using kettlebells. The previous exercises work the front of the thighs, whereas this will focus a lot on your hamstrings. So, hold the KB with both hands in front of you, balance on one leg and push your hips back. Now, to come back up, you will squeeze your glutes and hamstrings for a powerful contraction. The last exercise is the Turkish Get-up. And although this is a great ab exercise, in fact it, like all the other exercises mentioned here, is an excellent total body exercise. So, from a laying down position, hold the KB overhead with arm extended …
