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Circuit Training

For those who may not know, circuit training is usually comprised of 3 or more explosive exercises without breaks in between exercise. For example, I usually do a 3 minutes for each exercise in this order: burpee's, push-ups, burpee's, sit-ups, burpee's, and body weight squats.

You don't have to use the same exercises, or 3 minute intervals, but that should give a general idea for someone wanting to know about circuit training.

Body weight training

I primarily do body weight exercises instead of weight lifting. They include: Push-ups, pull-ups, squats (many variations), dips, and crunches.

Of course there are more exercises than the ones named here, but I just wanted to give an idea.

HIIT

High Intensive Interval Training... usually done by sprinting, but may be done with any "cardio" exercises.

First you warm up for a couple of minutes at an easy pace, then for 30 sec- 1 min go at maximum intensity, after that go back to the easy pace for a couple of minutes, repeat.

This type of exercising conditions your heart, increasing it's efficiency as it goes from a low heart rate to a high heart rate, and back down to a low one.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Squat

This exercise is deceptively technical, but if you master the form, it will transform your body.

I tried to find an animation of a correct squat, but none came up. This is a demonstration of how not to squat. The problem being how far down he goes... you can see how his thighs never go parallel with the floor, this common mistake mistake is called "not going into the hole"

A real squat should look more like this.

You can see how his thighs are parallel with the floor, this is the correct bottom position of the squat, it is important to keep your shoulders over the balls of your feet, or you will loose balance.
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