Frog jumps are a terrific exercise to increase your heart rate and burn some extra calories. They are great if you are running short on time and can’t do your complete fitness routine, or if you want to add them to the end of your daily regimen as an extra challenge.
To do frog jumps, get into the squat position as low to the floor as you can get. Extend your hands out in front of you, bracing yourself with the floor if need be.
Using an explosive movement, push yourself up off the floor, jumping up into the air. In the …read more

As you know, cardio and diet are great ways to drop weight and tone up, but weight training can also be instrumental in the process to transforming a better posterior. I’ve mentioned a few of these exercises previously, but they are worth mentioning again as they really do a great job working your gluteus.
1. Reverse lunges – You can do these with or without weight.  Either way you are in for a challenging exercise.  Give your legs a good stretch when going down and you will add to your workout.
2. Platform step ups – Step up onto an elevated surface …read more

Your hand and wrist strength is often an overlooked area when it comes to weight lifting. But this area should not be neglected as it contributes in a big way to your lifts and your ability to not only lift the weight but hold it.  This area dips into forearm strength but for this blog let’s just stick to your lower limb.
To develop your hand strength, there are some a myriad of exercises you can add to your regimen.  First, finger tip pushups are great at strengthening your fingers and palm area.  Also, hand grips work the same layers and …read more

I want to share some cool new chest and tricep exercises I tried out today at the gym.  A trainer showed me two and I incorporated one another trainer had showed me a few weeks ago.  We’ll discuss the two pec exercises first.
Number one was the ring fly.  In this exercise, 2 attached rings are suspended about 3 feet above the ground.  You grab the rings and perform a chest fly while in the air.  This is a tremendous workout for your pecs, shoulders, and arms but is slightly more advanced than regular exercises in that you need good base …read more