Gravity Fx Fitness

The last couple weeks I’ve switched up my workouts a little.  Sometimes I combine sandbag exercises with flex band workouts where I do a total body circuit in one session.

Besides not requiring a lot of time to exercise, these interval workouts burn a lot of fat, as your metabolism stays elevated for several hours afterwards.  I’ll do a lower body exercise and then switch to an upper body exercise or two and then repeat this circuit.

My heartrate is elevated the whole time, so I get my cardio work in at the same time I do my resistance training – pretty efficient if you ask me.  All the exercises involve the “core” so that also helps with being time efficient.

But the intense workouts can add up after a while, so I’ve made some slight changes.  I’ve seperated my upper body and lower body workouts to let my body recover a little better.  It also lets me get an extra workout into my week, which should help.

I told you that I recently bought a “shoe” with individual pockets for my toes – the Vibram five fingers.  I’ve been trying to wear them a lot on my days off to help strengthen my feet and also wearing them during my training.

They seem to be working and I definitely like how much it makes my toes work, as they are spread out, providing greater stability to my feet and lower legs – good for the posture.

I did some dive bomber pushups, along with T-stability pushups, alternating with flex band one arm rows and bent-over sandbag rows.  Then I did alternating sandbag presses and some alternating sandbag curls.  It feels good to some direct work for the “guns” every once in a while.

Since I was feeling pretty good, I decided to try some overhead presses with the 120 lb. sandbag.  If that doesn’t sound that difficult then just try lifting something overhead that is constantly shifting (sand) and it turns into a little more work.

I got a couple sets of 5 and felt pretty good.  I had to use a slight bit of leg drive on the last few reps, but not too much.  If you read my recent post on shoulder injuries, you should know that I never did get surgery on my shoulder and it is doing pretty well, in my opinion.

Lots of stability work has kept it in decent condition and lets me do anything I need to.  Between the flex bands and sandbags I have an almost limitless number of exercises that can be done either at home or outdoors.

If you would like more info on sandbag training you should check out coach Josh Henkin’s Sandbag Fitness Systems.

Get moving!

Brian

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