Strut Your Stuff: 7 Moves for Runway Legs
February 24, 2008
It is not too soon to start thinking about showing off your legs. We are at the end of February and spring and summer will be here before you know it. More clothes will come off and I don’t want you to go into shock because you did not work on those legs!
I found a great article by Jeanette Jenkins over at the Fit List: Workout Tips for Celebrity Trainers over at MSNBC. Here is part of what she had to say:
Ever wonder how supermodels like Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum and Naomi Campbell keep their legs looking runway-ready? Of course, there is no denying they have great genes. But they also work at those gorgeous gams. When they have a runway show coming up, such as the ones this month in Milan and Rio, they call on a trainer to get their legs looking fierce and fabulous!
To help you get your own pair of runway legs, incorporate some of the following lower-body exercises and activities into your workout regimen. For the best results, try using two to three different methods of training each week so your muscles are constantly challenged.
She recommends: Ballet, Call-me-the-’B'-word-today-but-love-me-tomorrow-lunges!, Uphill hiking,Yoga, Strength-training, Pilates, a Spinning.
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Jillian Michaels: Motivation
February 24, 2008
Hi I’m Jillian Michaels for America Takes it Off-Choose your Resolution. A big challenge in anyone’s fitness regiment is motivation. Ultimately motivation has to come from within. Make a list of all the reasons that you want to get healthy and be in shape, it’s this list that’s going to define your wellness goals. Be specific, and realistic when setting goals for yourself. In other words, if you’ve never workout out before, don’t expect to run a marathon right off the bat. Rather, schedule 30 walks 5 days a week, and work your way up to a 10 minute mile. Also, take responsibility. The choices that you make determine your destiny. Get out of victim mode. You have the ability to choose your actions in any situation, good or bad, to make the outcome, ultimately in your favor. By getting empowered and regaining control of your life, your goals will become reality in no time.
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Jillian Michaels: Cut the Carbs for that Special Event
February 16, 2008
Are you resolved to slim down this year? I’m Jillian Michaels from American Takes it off. Choose your resolution. So you’ve got a huge party to go to. You want to look your absolute best. Here’s a tip for you. Cut the carbs. Not permanently. Just 2 days before your special event. I want you to avoid grains like bread, pasta, rice, cereal. Especially sugar. Even fruit sugar. These type of carbs hold water weight, and they’ll make you look bloated, which is exactly what we do not want. If you can avoid the carbs, you’ll look stunning and and feel fabulous at your big party.
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Jillian Michaels: If you want to get cut. Cut the sodium from your diet.
February 16, 2008
Lose the weight for good this year. With America Takes it Off. Choose your Resolution and me Jillian Michaels. If you want to get cut. Cut the sodium from your diet. Salt make your body retain fluid. This makes you feel bloated. Like your clothes are too tight. No body likes that. So read your food labels diligently. Keep your sodium under 500mg per day and be especially wary of frozen canned, and processed foods. Trust me…you’ll thank me for it when you’re sliding into your skinny jeans.
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Cardio is a Joke for Fat Burning
February 16, 2008
Strong statement, I know, but I really believe that cardio for fat loss is a joke. Although, not a very funny one…
One woman wrote, “I started out doing 5 hours of cardio per week. No results. So I upped it to 7 hours per week. Still nothing. Do you suggest I do more? I’m worried if I use your program, I won’t get any results because you don’t even have an hour of interval cardio per week. Please help!”
And from a gentleman on the Men’s Health forum, “I took up running and didn’t take up stretching until it was almost to late and almost destroyed a knee. What happened was that my IT bands got really tight and my inner quads didn’t gain any strength so my knee cap got pulled out of place. I had an MRI done on my knee and have found that my knee cap has bruised my femur. ”
Cardio horror stories are a dime-a-dozen. So here’s the bottom line on cardio…
Long slow aerobic training remains the biggest practical joke in fitness. Marathon running for the average overweight person? Why don’t you just tell someone to go play in traffic…oh wait, that’s exactly what they are doing - all while crushing their joints with excess weight and repetitive pounding.
If you do long, slow cardio, its only a matter of time before you end up in a physiotherapist’s office with all the others that do too much of the same thing…whether its running or spin classes, overuse injuries are far too common in the cardio world. After all, what’s easier to overdo, total body strength training done 3 times per week for 20 minutes, or the same cardio activity done for 6-9 hours per week?
Heck, I once knew a physiotherapist who was so addicted to spin classes that she had overuse injuries that prevented her from walking normally! Physio, heal thyself!
What a joke that cardio is…
But cardio fits our “more is better” mentality, doesn’t it? We go right from a 3000 calorie meal at the Outback Steakhouse to our 60 minute cardio confessional sessions on the elliptical. More, more, more, more. And yet get less results?
There is a better way.
Take a peek at the weight room when you are in a gym. Then compare the bodies there to the bodies on the elliptical. You’ll find the sculpted, toned physiques lifting dumbells and doing pushups, and the plump, “never changing physiques” spinning their tires over on the cardio equipment.
No matter what the city, no matter where the gym, its the same old story.
Burn fat, get lean, and boost your metabolism with resistance training. Finish with short interval training or even bodyweight circuits (described in my DB-BW Fusion TT Workout Bonus from
Turbulence Training and you are off to the fat burning races.Or get left behind on the cardio equipment that is getting you nowhere,
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Cardio: Circuit Training vs. Slow, Excruciatingly, Boring Cardio
February 16, 2008
Aerobic exercise gets all the glory when it comes to increasing fitness, but for beginners, you can get a lot more “bang for your fitness buck” by using circuit training instead of long, slow boring cardio. Brazilian researchers assigned subjects to a 12-week program of cardio only, or total-body circuit training only. Both groups exercised for 35 minutes, 3 times per week.At the end of the study, both groups increased their aerobic fitness by 4%. In addition, both groups also increased their leg strength by 6%. However, only the circuit training group increased their upper body strength.So if you are a beginner, your best bet for maximum gains in fitness is to use a total-body circuit training program if you are limited in the amount of time you can commit to a workout program. Hands down, short burst resistance training workouts done with short rest periods between exercises gives you more bang for your buck.So cancel your subscription to People magazine, because you don’t need to spend hours on the elliptical machine in order to “get fit”.
When you order the fat burning workout package from Turbulence Training, you also get a three-month trial TT membership. And one of the many benefits of a TT Membership is that you get access to the TT workout of the month. For February, I put together a TT Circuit Workout. All TT Members can download this workout and watch the exercise video on the site. And they are loving it! “Craig, just wanted to let you know the new workout you posted this month is awesome and I absolutely love it. I was starting to get into the winter slump a bit but this has rejuvenated my workouts. Thanks!”
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Switch things up for variety, fun, and results,Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence TrainingPS - How much can you lose this month?“I lost 14 pounds this month and the weight is just falling off me. My wife says I now look like when we first met and I still have more to go. I can fit into my old jeans again which is a big deal for me. I just cut back on starches and bread and do your routine 2-3 times a week. I never thought in a million years that just 10-20 minutes of weight training followed by some cardio would get me such steady results. I even cheat a bit on the weekends.”
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4 Minute Workout: Pushups, Squats And Crunches
February 7, 2008
This is going to be another great combo. Its going to use a divebomber pushup, to an abdominal crunch, then we are going to go into a squat and then to a crunch. So we are actually doing 4 full sets of crunches. Combined with the pushups, and the squats. So let’s get this started. We are going to work every bodypart, with a little bit more focus on the core. Here we go!
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Cardio-Interval Training
February 7, 2008
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Hopefully this video answers a lot of your questions about the right type of “cardio” for fat loss.
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Interval TrainingThis is Craig Ballantyne from TurbulenceTraining and TTmembers. I wanted to take this time to explain the interval training for fat loss portion of the program. Because it is very important for fat loss, but it is also a little bit complicated for people that have not done interval training before.
Now generally I recomment that people use the bike for interval training. A stationary bike is nice and easy because you can transition between hard and easy exercise quite simply. And also you don’t have worry about falling off a treadmill. You don’t have to worry about advanced sprinting. You’ll need to actually warm up for sprinting. With a bike it’s very simple. It allows you to do a lot of work, by increasing the resistance, and taking it off quite easily. Let me show you an example using the treadmill for interval training.
What I like people to do is to do interval training right after their bodywieght circuit. If you aren’t fit enough, you can do interval training, or cardio training on off days instead. We do interval training 3 days per week. So it fits in nicely right after the strength training cricuits, or other bodyweight workouts that you do later on in the phase. If you want to do it on other days, that is fine as well. But make sure you take full day of rest each week. So we are going to do a couple of the interval workouts from the preparation phase in this next segment. Click on the above video to watch the entire Interval Training for Fat Loss Video.
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Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for
Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fatloss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitnessmagazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat,gain muscle , and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. Here’s to 2008 being your best year ever. If there is anything I can do to help you out, don’t hesitate to ask. Thanks so much for your support!2008 is going to be a heck of a year,Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS Author, Turbulence Training
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4 Minute Workout
February 7, 2008
Hi…
My name is Ryan Lee, and welcome to the sprint fitness DVD. This DVD is going to focus on workouts on just using bodyweight, and we are going to do high intensity work. 4 minutes through. You’ll see in a few minutes we will take you through some of the progressions. How many workouts you should be doing per week. How long you should be working out for. Everything that we are going to be doing in this DVD, you can be doing with just your bodyweight. You can do it anywhere, anyplace, anytime. You don’t need any equipment.
Welcome to the Quattro fitness workout system. Now this was created for very busy people. Just like you and me. This is for people who work, maybe have kids, and just don’t have hours to spend in the gym. The workout system is based on 4 minute workouts. Now that is where we got the word quattro from. Its the spanish word meaining four.
Every workout that you are going to do is going to be exactly 4 minutes in length. Each 4 minute round is broken down in to 8 specific sets. Every set is going to last for 30 seconds.
Let me give you an example. If you were doing pushups. You would do pushups for 20 seconds and then you would rest for 10 seconds. You do another set for 20 seconds, rests for 10 seconds, until you have 8 complete sets. Which equals one 4 minute round.
Now if you are a beginner, what you are going to do, is start off with 10 seconds of exercise, and 20 seconds of rest. You are going to continue that for 8 sets. As you get stronger and in better shape and better condition, you are going to do 15 seconds of exercise, and 15 seconds of rest.
Every exercise is time coded in the bottom right hand corner, so you can see exactly how long you are exercising for. So if you are only doing 10 seconds of exercise, you will see that in the bottom right hand corner. Then you will just rest, until the next set begins. So as you are also getting stronger, you can add on more rounds until you can up to about three 4 minute rounds so your workout would be a total of 12 minutes.
Now if you find the exercises too hard, you can easily adapt them. So if it is a pushup, you can do it on your knee. You can decrease the amount of weight you are using with the dumbbells. Or you can not use any weight at all. And if it’s too easy, obviously you can add more weight. You could do things maybe on one leg. Use one arm and make it a little bit harder, and more of a challenge.
Now, I suggest you do this workout 3 days a week. Doing an every other day type of cycle. You can do it Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or a Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. These workouts are also designed so that you can repeat them more than 1 day in a row. We have 10 different workouts to choose from on this DVD. So you can try 1 workout 1 day, and another workout the next, and change it around and have fun with it with choosing different workouts for a challenge. You can do it up to 5 days a week. Just make sure that you are getting plenty of rest. I also suggest that you do this workout in the morning, before you eat, and before you shower. You just get it done. It takes 5-10 minutes. Then you are done for the rest of the day.
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