Workouts

Routine for 6 Pack Abs

3 Killer Tips to Uncover the Most Effective Abdominal Exercises in Your Routine!
Uncovering a killer routine for 6 pack abs doesn’t have to be difficult. You have probably searched unsuccessfully to find the secrets to revealing your six pack but have not had much success. Well I am going to reveal to you [...]

High Interval Intensity Training – Your Secret Weapon to Fat Loss

High interval intensity training may be the secret weapon you’re looking for. So you are looking for an effective way to burn fat, lose weight or break through a plateau in your training schedule, but you don’t have hours and hours to spend on long steady state cardio exercises. There is an effective [...]

Killer Ab Work Out You Can Do At Home

So you’re looking for an effective ab work out? I am sure that you’ve found plenty of abdominal workouts all over the internet. With so much information available it is sometimes hard to know what is going to work and what is going to be a waste of time. Well, here is [...]

How to Uncover the Best Exercises For Abs

Who else is frustrated and confused about all the contradictory information about the best exercises for abs? I know I was. So what can you do about it? The first thing you can do is discover how to decide for yourself whether an exercise should be classified as one of the best [...]

Best and Worst Exercises for Abs

Is it just me, or are you tired of this too?  One so called fitness expert tells you that the best exercises for abs are crunches and the next one tells the complete opposite.  I think much of the misunderstanding comes because some personal trainers and experts just don’t take the time to ask themselves [...]

Best Abs Exercise

If you walk in to your local fitness club and ask one of their personal trainers what the best abs exercise is they will probably tell you crunches. Though the trend is finally changing to more efficient ab exercises I am still amazed at how little some professionals know.

The Ultimate Hard-Body Exercise

Here is an article by Mike Geary.  He describes the effectiveness of the front squat and why it is one of the best exercises for creating a total body effect.  Most long boring cardio exercises do not require the type of total body balance, stability, and coordination that the front squat and dead lift stimulate.  [...]

3 Best Abdominal Exercises

For a long time I have been a believer that the best way to train your abdominal muscles is through natural movements.  It always seemed that there should be a better way to get six pack abs then spend hours doing crunches and variations of crunches.  I found it difficult to believe that lying flat [...]

Do You Really Need “Cardio” Workouts?

Do You Really Need “Cardio” Workouts?
by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer
Author:  The Truth About Six Pack Abs
In this article, I have an intriguing discussion about cardio workouts, which will hopefully get you thinking differently, and trying new things.
You may know I’ve been called the anti-cardio guy before, but this week I’m [...]

Weight Loss for Women At Home

Weight Loss for Women At Home
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com
A woman’s workout should consist of leg raises, biceps curls with
soup cans, and triceps kickbacks with water bottles.
Can you believe that silliness?
Neither can I, but that is what passes for “professional fitness
advice for women” these days.
I could see this info being accepted in [...]

Barbell, Kettlebell, and Dumbbell Complexes to Take Your Body to a New Level of Hardness and Conditioning

Barbell, Kettlebell, and Dumbbell Complexes to Take Your Body to a New Level of Hardness and Conditioning
by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer
Author:  The Truth About Six Pack Abs
If you’ve been looking for a different training technique to break out of a rut, eliminate the boredom, and bring on new results, “complexes” [...]

3 Functions of the Abdominal Muscles

3 Functions of the Abdominal Muscles – How They Really Work!
Aaron Ivey ATC, CSCS
With so many gadgets and gismos bombarding our television, internet, and health clubs, how do you know what exercises work the best for abdominal training?  In order to understand which exercises we should do we need to understand how the abdominals really [...]

Train the Movement Not the Muscle

Train the Movement Not the Muscle – Isolation vs. Complex Exercise in Strength Training
by Aaron Ivey – Certified Athletic Trainer, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
As a strength training specialist, I get questions from friends and clients all of the time about the best way to train.  I find that most of the questions, though genuine [...]

The Hidden Dangers of Your Excess Abdominal Fat – It’s More Serious Than a Vanity Issue!

The Hidden Dangers of Your Excess Abdominal Fat – It’s More Serious Than a Vanity Issue!
by Mike Geary, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer
Truth About Six Pack Abs
Did you know that the vast majority of people in this day and age have excess abdominal fat? The first thing that most people think of is that [...]

Circuit Training Workouts

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com

Long, slow, boring aerobic exercise may get all the glory in the media,
but you can get a lot more bang for your fitness buck with circuit training.
In fact, it’s one of the best ways to burn fat and build muscle at the same
time, while getting your workouts done in very little [...]

Interval Training – Challenge Any of the 3 Energy Systems

Interval Training – Challenge Any of the 3 Energy Systems
At the root of all training routines is the need to make the body more efficient at producing energy for your given activity, whether that is a sport, general health or life.  If you are not training specific to the energy requirements of your activity you [...]

Specific Formula to Charge Your Energy Systems

Specific Formula to Charge Your Energy Systems
In a previous article I outlined a basic model of how your body produces the ATP necessary to power your body.  That’s all great in theory but how do you apply that to your interval training workout?  Each sport or activity has different energy system requirements.  How do you [...]

Weight Loss With Circuit Training – A Fast Alternative to Interval Training

Weight Loss With Circuit Training – A Fast Alternative to Interval Training
by:  Aaron Ivey ATC, CSCS
Though circuit training has been given a different name, it is much the same as interval training.  Both combine bouts of high intensity exercise with rest periods.  Circuit training is great for busy people because, like interval training, it takes [...]

6 Interval Training Sessions Improve Oxygen Utilization

6 Interval Training Sessions Improve Oxygen Utilization
How effective are interval training sessions at increasing aerobic exercise capacity
compared to traditional aerobic training?  Researchers at McMaster University in Canada
uncovered some very interesting answers.
The study involved 8 subjects who performed interval training sprints on a stationary cycle.
Subjects participated in 6 sessions over 14 days.  Each session consisted of [...]

‘No Time To Exercise’ Is No Excuse

A study, published in The Journal of Physiology, shows that short bursts of very intense exercise — equivalent to only a few minutes per day — can produce the same results as traditional endurance training.
The Study:
Subjects:  16 college-aged students
Protocols:
- Interval training group:  4-6 sets of 30 second “all out” bouts with 4 minutes recovery for [...]

Fat Burning Bodyweight Circuit Exercises

Fat Burning Bodyweight Circuit Exercises

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Turbulence Training for Fat Loss
When you travel, you worry about missing your workouts and eating poorly…So you must plan ahead for both (apples and almonds for planes, trains, & automobiles)…and bodyweight circuits for “no-equipment [...]

Which Turbulence Training Workout Should I Use?

Which Turbulence Training Workout Should I Use?

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com
With Turbulence Training for Fat Loss, there are a lot of workouts to choose from.
So why did I create so many fat burning programs?
Because you need to have variety in your workouts to keep on
boosting your metabolism, and burning fat month after month.
If [...]

30 Second Sprints As Effective as 60 Minute Run

Just six minutes of intense exercise a week could be as effective as an hour of daily moderate activity suggests new findings from researchers at McMaster University.
“Short bouts of very intense exercise improved muscle health and performance comparable to several weeks of traditional endurance training,” says Martin Gibala, an associate professor in the department of [...]

Interval Training Burns More Fat, Increases Fitness

Interval training burns fat and improves fitness more quickly than constant but moderately intensive physical activity, according to research by a University of Guelph researcher.
The study included moderately fit women in their 20’s and borderline sedentary subjects.  Subjects trained every other day for 2 weeks alternating between 4 minute work periods and 2 minute rest [...]

The Top 5 Treadmill Workout Plans Using Interval Training

The Top 5 Treadmill Workout Plans Using Interval Training

It’s real easy to find a lot of treadmill workout plans. However, which of them are effective. Nobody likes to spend an hour and the gym doing long, slow, boring cardio workouts only to find out that what they were doing wasn’t effective enough to help [...]

6 Ways to Fire Up Your Interval Training Workout

6 Ways to Fire Up Your Interval Training Workout
Coaches and athletes using interval training are always looking for ways to improve their workout and make them more effective.  I have included 7 different different ways to tweak your interval training workout.  These tweaks will challenge your body and keep it guessing. These changes are the [...]