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Let’s get it.
1 minute of each workout, repeat 3 times.
1) Side to side obliques
2) Toe touches
3) 30 second side plank hold
4) Reverse crunch
5) Single leg V ups
Make sure you breath, stay hydrated and play some good music. It will help.
You know how we roll. No gym or equipment needed.
Get some water, grab a towel and lets get it.
Set your timer to 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest, do 5 round of each movement listed below:
Make sure you stretch at the end.
Have questions. Comment below or click on the Contact us link below.
This 20 minute at home workout will definitely make you sore. You will only need your body as it is the best equipment we all have. Might as well use it.
Get your water, grab a towel and lets get it.
Perform the next four moves back to back (a 15 second shake of the arms is all you’re allowed) and enjoy a proper rest at the end.
Sets: 3
Reps: 3
Rest: 15 secs
Get in a press-up position, with your hands shoulder-width apart and back straight. Lower until your chest almost touches the floor then push up explosively, clapping your hands together before going straight into the next press-up.
Don’t have a bench? Just use your stairs or a chair.
Sets: 3
Reps: 8
Rest: 15 secs
Place your feet on a bench with your hands planted on the floor in front of you. Lower your body down until your chest almost reaches the floor. Press your body back up to the starting position while squeezing your chest. Pause briefly at the top before repeating.
Sets: 3
Reps: To failure
Rest: 15 secs
Lie on the floor with your body straight and form a diamond shape with your hands. Lower your body down until your chest is almost touching the floor. Press your body back up to the starting position, squeezing your triceps and chest at the same time.
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This article and picture were taken from: https://thebarbellbeauties.com/what-really-happens-when-women-lift-heavy-weights/
We can’t deny that women who lift heavy weights have become more visible in the past decade or so. And even if female participation in Olympic weightlifting is blowing up (47 percent of USA Weightlifting members are now women), we still have tons of misleading ideas and wrong concepts about the real effects that this sport has on women’s bodies.
I wish I was a person who wasn’t concerned with my body and other people’s opinions about how I look, but most people are. Before becoming passionate about lifting weights, I had to overcome some things mentally. It was clear to me that by practicing this activity I would benefit greatly, but it took me time at the gym before I could understand that beauty is not a standardized concept. Beauty is health. Beauty is power. Beauty is determination and discipline. This is how I see it now and all thanks to CrossFit and it’s philosophy of mixing weightlifting with conditioning.
But I’m not the only one feeling this attraction to barbells and reaping the benefits of weightlifting. There are a lot of women around the world who feel the same way. Many of them are CrossFitters and ahead you will learn from their experiences. The objective is for you to stop listening to the media and paying attention to judgements, falsehoods and misinformation. We hope the testimony of these female weightlifters help you sort fact from fiction.
Here we will see what the science says about the benefits of weightlifting. We will look at the physical and mental benefits and give example testimonies from some of our Barbell Beauties members.
Physical health benefits of strength training
The Science:
When we strength train, our muscles go through a process of breaking down and then rebuilding in the next 24 to 48 hours after working out. This process is commonly known as the “afterburn effect”. This means that your metabolism keeps operating and even does it at a faster pace when you are resting after a workout. In short, the more muscle mass you have, the more calories you burn.
The Facts:
Dr. Crezetta Guess has always been active and losing weight wasn’t really a concern for her. After her husband passed away, and pushed by her daughter, Dr. Guess started CrossFit when she was 52 years old. She says “once I started CrossFit and lifting heavy, I started seeing amazing changes in my body, my energy level, strength, confidence. At 55, I’m in the best shape of my life. And the best side effect, I’ve lost over 30 lbs and I’ve found something that I love. The photo she shared with us is February 2017 vs February 2020.
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THIS IS A TEST. This post was copied from https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/10/18148463/high-intensity-interval-training-hiit-orangetheory
Modern life has a way of making us feel time-crunched and pressured to find the most efficient ways of using the precious hours when we’re not sleeping. The trendy fitness regimen high-intensity interval training, or HIIT, epitomizes this feeling.
HIIT promises the best workout in the least amount of time. Runners have used interval training for more than 100 years, alternating between sprints and jogging to improve their endurance. But HIIT didn’t really go mainstream until about a decade ago, when exercise physiologists started to come out with study after study demonstrating that intervals could deliver the biggest health improvement for your exercise time. In 2013, the seven-minute workout, popularized by the New York Times, appeared on the scene, and by 2016, the one-minute workout.
Recently, fitness professionals voted HIIT one of the top fitness trends for 2020 in a survey by the American College of Sports Medicine. And interval-based workouts are now popping up seemingly everywhere: at chains like Shred415 and Orangetheory, in group classes at YMCAs, on apps and YouTube, even in the routines outlined in Oprah’s O magazine. Often they promise to burn fat and “metabolically charge the body,” as Orangetheory puts it, in a short time period.
But there are some important nuances scientists have learned about HIIT that have gotten lost in the hype. The proven benefits of these workouts relate to a very particular type of interval training, and they’ve got nothing to do with weight loss. Here are six basic questions about HIIT, answered.
First things first: What is HIIT?
HIIT workouts generally combine short bursts of intense exercise with periods of rest or lower-intensity exercise. At fitness studios and online, these workouts often mix aerobic and resistance training.
To be clear, most of the interval workouts researchers have studied focus solely on aerobic exercise. Which means the scientific understanding of interval training is based on a more specific routine than what’s appearing in most gyms, videos, and magazines. And the researchers’ definition matters because when we’re talking about the evidence of benefits, we need to be specific about the kinds of workouts that science was based on.
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