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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Turbulence Training: 4-Week Bodyweight Workout
January 6, 2008
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Turbulence Training: Bodyweight Circuits Workout
January 6, 2008
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A nice bodyweight circuit you can do at home in place of interval training to burn fat.
So the first exercise that I am going to show you is a Y squat followed by a spiderman pushup. Then we are going to a reverse lunge, and then a prone tuck in with push-up, and the 5th exercise is a prisoner sit squat, so it will be on the balls of the feet. Then the 6th exercise is what is called a cross body mountain climber. I am going to do 6 repetitions for each, just so that I can show you the exercise. For you, you can do 8-12, or 15 repetitions per exercise depending on how strong and fit you are. Going through the circuit with no rest between exercises. Rest 1 minute at the end, and repeat the up to 3 times.The first exercise is the Y squat with the hands up in the Y position.
Next up spiderman push-up. Reverse lunge, you can keep your hands at your side, or do them prisoner style to increase the work on your upper back. Keep the elbows back, and shoulder blades together. Whenever you are doing an exercise with your hands up in the prisoner position, you have to keep your elbows together. Your elbows back, and shoulder blades together. Otherwise there is no point in keeping your arms up there. Prisoner sit squat on the balls of the feet. Last one is the cross body mountain climber.
Ok so you can see how a lot of this stuff involves forward flexion for the abdominals, but also a bit of hip flexion, there is a lot of work done by the quadriceps as well in the workout. Also a lot of pushing. So not a lot of upper back or hamstrings, so make sure and get some extra exercises in after, or in another workout to make up for that. That’s it for our fist circuit workout TTMembers.com Looking forward to bringing you more in the future.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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Hotel Room Workout
December 29, 2007
#9 - TT Hotel Room Workout
This one was done in a budget hotel room in Australia on the same trip, just before I went and walked 30 km around the beautiful city of Sydney.
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
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Interval Training
December 29, 2007
Interval Training
Interval TrainingThis is Craig Ballantyne from Turbulence Training 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.About the
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gain muscle , and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit Turbulence Training
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Turbulence Training: 4-Week BWW
December 24, 2007
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Interval Training: High Intensity
December 19, 2007
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This is Craig Ballantyne from TurbulenceTraining and TTmembers Today we are going to cover High Intensity Interval Training for fat loss . You’ve probably heard of Intensity Interval Training because it’s been used in a lot of programs these days for fat loss cause smart trainers know that it works a lot better than slow boring cardio. You get results faster, with much shorter workouts, and you actually get results, compared to some of these cardio workouts that aren’t getting you any results at all.High Intensity Interval Training means any type of spring exercise that lasts from about 0-90 seconds. Anything longer than about 2 minutes can get into what’s called aerobic interval training. Generally High Intensity Interval Training sessions are about 90 seconds or less.So usually even about 15-30 or even 45 seconds. That just means that you sprint for that designated period of time. Then you go down to a very easy period of exercise. That’s one of the big mistakes people make when they are doing their interval training, they don’t drop the intensity down low enough during the recovery period.If you are running at 10 miles per hour during your interval, and you drop it down only 8 miles per hour, then you’re really just still doing cardio. You’re not doing High Intensity Interval Training because that will not allow you to recover, and you won’t be able to sprint hard again at 10 miles per hour. So make sure you go from hard to easy.That means from going from a sprint, to a walk. It’s OK to walk during interval training. That’s the whole purpose so that you can work really hard.We are going to start with our warm up. Then we will get into our first High Intensity Interval Training.
So after I am fully warmed up, as you see in the exercise videos above, doing our regular specific 5-10 minute warm-up, then we’ll go into our High Intensity Interval Training. So now I am sprinting. This is a pace that I can maintain for 30 -45 seconds. I’ll do my interval after 45 seconds. I’ll take it all the way down to a very low recovery pace. So all the way down to 3.5 MPH on the treadmill. Make sure that you’re walking. So it doesn’t matter if you run you intervals at 8 MPH or 10MPH or even 12 MPH, you have to come down to this walking pace. That’s one interval. You’ll do about 6 intervals in a workout, and finish with a cooldown. That’s High Intensity Interval Training. It’s going to give you more results in terms of your fat loss program, also in sports specific conditioning. It’s also going to make you fitter for your everyday activities.
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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 fatlos workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, 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. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardiosessions or fancy equipment, visit Turbulence Training
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Turbulence Training: More Bodyweight Circuits
December 19, 2007
Turbulence Training: More Bodyweight Circuits
This is Craig Ballantyne from TurbulenceTraining and TTmembers. I am going to explain today what a bodyweight circuit is. We us bodyweight circuits in place of interval training because many people don’t have interval training machines at home, and don’t have the ability to go outside and do sprints.
So what we do for bodyweight circuit training is we use about 6 exercises, and we use 3 upperbody exercises, and we use 3 lowerbody exercises, alternating between the upperbody and the lowerbody exercises. So we’ll start off with the very easy lowerbody exercise and a very easy upperbody exercise. A Y squat is a nice general easy warmup exercise to start the circuit. Your hands are up in a Y position, push your hips back, and just do squatting. Since we’re doing circuits we are going to do about 15 repetitions, we want to obviously fatigue our ourselves with this circuit.
Then we are going into just a basic pushup exercise because it’s really serving as a warm-up exercise for us. We’ll do about 15 repetitions of that too because we are really using these at almost an advanced level, so you should be able to do about 15 pushups. If you can’t…If you are a beginner, then use kneeling pushups. For whatever you do, choose an exercise that’s not going to make you sore the next day.
So our third exercise in the circuit, we use something with the lunge, maybe with a bit of a pause down at the bottom to increase the difficulty. We’ll do 12 or 15 repetitions for each leg because again, because we’re working through the bodyweight circuit, using it as interval training rather than as strength training. Using exercises we can do a lot of repetitions for. Then we’ll going into another pushup. This time we’ll make it harder, so we’ll go with a decline pushup. We’ll do also about 15 repetitions, because after the 15 regular pushups, 15 decline pushups will be quite hard.
The we’ll go into 1 more, lower body exercise, this time I’d like to use something that uses a lot of movement, so I might use something like jumping jacks, and we’ll do about 60 repetitions of the jumping jacks, again because we’re using this as interval training, we’re not using it as strength training, it’s a good way to increase the sweat rate, and the get lots of calorie burned. We’ll finish off with a total body abdominal exercise, because there is so much work here on the chest, holding us in position, we’ll call this an upper body exercise. We’ll do mountain climbers.
We’re doing about 12 for each side. Maybe even 15 for each side. So that’s just a 6 exercise, very basis bodyweight circuit. Very little equipment needed. You don’t even need the bench. You can just put your feet up on anything. That way you can do interval type training, anywere, anytime. All you need is about a 6 x 6 area, and you can still get interval type cardio training, that will help boost your metabolism, and burn fat.
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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 fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, 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. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit TubulenceTraining
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Ripped Abs: My 3 Favorite Abdominal Exercises
December 19, 2007
Exercise Videos for Fat Loss: Abdominal Exercises
Hi, my this is Craig Ballantyne from Turbulence Training and TTmembers. Today I am going to show you my 3 favorite abdominal exercises ,but none of them involve laying on your back, and curling your shoulder blades off the ground, or doing sit-ups or doing any type of that movement where you do hundreds of repetitions, while lying on the ground.The first exercise that I am going to show you, is using the [tag] ab wheel, then I’m going to show you the stability ball jacknife, and then a crossbody mountain climber These exercises can be done in a circuit, for an excellent abdominal workout , that really works your abdominals, without putting a lot of stress on your lower back.
So the fist exercise , is the ab wheel . You’ve seen it on TV. You’re going to start in an upright position. Rollout. Sqeeze your abs , and come back up. Then in the circuit you can move immediately into what’s called a stability ball jackknife . Put your elbows up on the bench. Feet on the ball, Tuck in…and out. There’s many variations you can do with this exercise, so we’re are going to a one leg one, and then we’re going to do a bit of a rotation. So with one leg. Then with rotation, you’ll bring your legs up to one side, and then to the other. You can also do this with your hands on the ground, instead of your elbows on the bench. And add a pushup. All types of variations that you can do with that exercise. The final exercise, a mountain climber, with a cross body rotation.
So on this one, instead doing the regular mountain climber, where you just bring your knees straight ahead. You’re going to take your knee to your opposite arm. So that way you get a bit of rotation, and work your abdominals extra hard. So those are my three favorite abdominal exercises. They are exercises that you can do in a circuit. To get great results. Burn fat and get ripped abs.
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Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines[/tag]. His trademarked Turbulence Training fatloss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness[/tag] and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world [tag]lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit Turbulence Training
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