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Pull ups – Stand just in front of pull up bar and reach up grip onto bar with palms away from you and use mainly your lats and rhomboid muscles to pull yourself up so that chin is above bar, then lower yourself back down. || Read more
Rotating Wide Squats with Sandbag Clean – Start standing and holding onto sandbag at chest level by lateral handles with sandbag flipped over onto the backs of your hands. Take a wide step to the right and come down into a squat while doing a sandbag clean, flipping sandbag over your knuckles and bringing it to the ground. Come up out of the squat and bring up sandbag back up, flipping it over your knuckles to the back of your hand and holding in close to chest. Now keeping your right foot on the ground lift left foot and pivot body around 180 degrees so you are facing in the opposite direction and bring left foot down into a wide stance, squat and do another sandbag clean. For the next rep keep left foot on the ground and pivot body 180 degrees bringing right foot around and down into a wide stance facing the side you started facing and do a squat and sandbag clean. Then do one more rotating squat turning 180 degrees, doing a squat and clean. This was 4 reps, for the next 4 reps reverse your movements and work your way back in the same manner until you reach the start position. Continue doing squats and sandbag cleans like this until time or reps are up. || Read more
Sandbag Cyclone Swing Reverse Lunge – Start standing holding sandbag by the lateral handles over your shoulders so it is positioned at top of upper back. Bring sandbag around your head and across the front of your body coming down in a diagonal line to the other side towards the ground and beside your outer foot simultaneously as you lunge back with the opposite side leg. Reverse the movements coming back out of lunge and bringing sandbag back to upper back position. For the next rep swing the sandbag in the same manner but in the opposite direction as you lunge back with the other leg, and again reverse movements coming back to your start position. So, when you swing the sandbag around the right side of your head and over to the left side, you lunge back with the right leg, and when you swing the sandbag around the left side of your head and over to the right side, you lunge back with the left leg. || Read more
Lateral Side Lunges with Sandbag Press – From standing position holding sandbag by its lateral handles close to chest, step your right foot further out to the right side and do a side lunge, the right (outer) leg is bent and your left leg stays straight, then step back to center. As you come into center press up the sandbag towards the ceiling. Then bring the sandbag back down to chest and step in opposite direction and do a lunge with the other leg, and return doing another sandbag press as you come back to your start position. Continue with these movements alternating sides for each rep. || Read more
Double Crunch to V Up – Start laying on mat and do a double crunch by bringing both knees in towards chest and crunching up torso and reach arms along sides of body parallel to ground, then come back to start position and bring arms overhead and come up to a V Up, by raising outstretched arms and straight legs up high coming as close together as you can, and then lower back down to start position. This is one rep. || Read more
Side Plank 3 Elbow to Knee Crunch Burpees – Squat and jump legs back, push up then pivot body into side plank position with top arm stretched out towards ceiling in straight line, then bend arm and crunch elbow down towards bottom knee as it bends and comes up to meet elbow. After crunch return leg back to position do 2 more elbow to knee crunches. Then lower arm and come back to plank. Then jump legs back in and then jump up. || Read more
Dumbbell Star Crunch, Dumbbell Toe Touch – Lie on mat with legs lifted and straight at a 90 degree angle from body, with arms holding a dumbbell at ground behind your head. Open legs wide into a V keeping them straight and bring dumbbell up, crunching torso and reach through legs with dumbbell. Bring dumbbell back to start position behind head and bring legs close together again. Then bring dumbbell forward again and reach up with it towards toes, crunching torso and return to start position. This is one rep. Continue doing these movements alternating between the star crunch and toe touch. || Read more
