Exercises For Abs : Part 2

Lets have a look at some other forms of exercise that you may like to introduce into your exercise program.  Remember, varity is the key to maintaining your interest and preventing boredom with exercising.  All these forms of exercise will allow that variety and will promote muscle growth whilst encouraging fat burning by increasing your bodies metabolic rate.

So why not incorporate the following into your workout schedule :

Sandbag Training: This is an ideal form of exercise for utilising muscles that are often negleceted.  These muscles get in on the action because you are working with an unstable object.  You can make your own sandbags or you can use the construction type sandbag.  Using your sandbags you can do squats, cleans, presses, lunges, throws, heaves or simlply carrying up hills or steps.

Whichever you choose, you can be sure that you will get a very intense workout that will really get your heart rate going and will exercise your muscles in a host of different ways.

Mountain Biking: This fits the bill nicely when it comes to high variable intensity exercise, with plenty of bursts of exertion followed by periods of recovery.  With its mixture of steep climbs and the adrenilin rush of fast descents (recovery periods), mountain biking can be a real thrill.  You can be sure that you will be getting a high intensity leg burning workout, that will also zap the fat from your body.

Bag Boxing : For this type of workout, you can work with a heavy bag, a speed bag or even a rebound bag.  The heavy bag will give you the best all round full body workout.  Using a speed bag will improve your rythm and timing and is great for upper body workouts.

Skipping : This really does give a fantastic full body workout.  It is especially useful as a warm up to strength exercises.  Go for a cheap nylon rope as this is teh easiest to use and will allow you to skip faster.

With skipping, try alternating between 2 legged jumps, one legged jumps, arm crossovers and double jumps (this is where the rope passes under your feet twice for each jump).  Also you can skip as fast as you can for 15 - 20 seconds followed by skipping slower for a further 15 to 20 seconds to recover.  Repeat this as many times as you can.

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