Total Gym Weekly Workout – Fun at the Park

What a great way to spend your Labor Day holiday… at the Park!  This week I asked Nicole to mix things up with some options to help keep your workout fresh.   Follow Nicole through her full body Total Gym workout that includes great cardio options.   What’s at your neighborhood park that you incorporate into your workouts?

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Total Gym Weekly Workout – Torso Combo

Today Tom describes a Torso Combo developed by our talented GRAVITY MasterTrainers.  Build upper body strength with with this Torso Combination that includes a trunk rotation for core strength, move into a chest fly and finally a bicep curl.  Change position on the glide board to build a workout that meets your needs.

These and more great workouts ideas can be found at GravityClubhouse.com.  Membership is free and it’s a great way to keep your Total Gym workout fresh. See you there!

Have suggestions for a workout you’d like Tom to perform? Let us know in the comments box on this blog post.

Total Gym Weekly Workout – Hip and Glute Workout – Lunge Sequence

What’s your favorite Total Gym exercise?  We like them all!  And we love to hear from you about what keeps you motivated to reach your goals, or maintain your fitness.

This week we are focused on a Hip, Thigh and Glute Workout in a great Lunge Sequence.  With just a few position changes you can reach these large muscle groups for a lower body workout.  If you feel good, add in some upper body rotation to incorporate your core.  Thanks for stopping by and check back next Monday for more great exercise videos!

Total Gym Weekly Workout – Biceps Sequence

Happy Monday! Tom is out today at the Can-Fit-Pro convention and tradeshow in Toronto, Canada. He’ll be showcasing our GRAVITY workout on Total Gym – along with our Canadian distribution team – to over 10,000 attendees at the commercial fitness show.

Great arms requires hard work – sorry there’s no easy answer here! These biceps exercises on Total Gym are dynamic and challenging enough to see results … but they are also fun! Keep your elbows high and stabilize through the core to stay upright throughout every exercise. Look for progressions like static equilibrium exercises and supine bicep curls.

Total Gym Weekly Workout – Postnatal Exercise

Today’s weekly workout video speaks to the new moms who might need a little motivation to get back into a regular and safe exercise routine post-baby. Please consult your doctor and/or a certified fitness professional before getting back into exercise. There are safety concerns for new moms, especially those who had a cesarean section.

GRAVITY Master Trainer and certified fitness professional Tricia Alker is a new mom herself and she takes you through a series of beginning to advanced postnatal exercises. In this video, Tricia focuses on building strength in the upper body first considering that’s where you are constantly carrying heavy loads including baby, diaper bags and more.

For the men out there, you can do these upper body exercises as well. Just increase the resistance by going up a few levels!

Be sure to check out more GRAVITY on Total Gym exercises at www.gravityclubhouse.com. It’s free to register and access this video and more programming and online extras.
GRAVITYPick_My Postnatal Workout

Fitness Wisdom Wednesday – Metabolic Training on Total Gym

You may have heard of the phrase “metabolic training” on TV or in a fitness magazine. Maybe the most popular examples of the non-stop, high-intensity training are seen in the P90X infomercial and the latest “Insanity” workout that allegedly pushes you past your limits in the “hardest workout program ever put on DVD.” I can’t account to the truth of that statement, but here’s a quick definition of metabolic training:

A fast-paced circuit workout where you do a series of fairly simple weightlifting and cardiovascular exercises in a short amount of time working your muscles to fatigue. The idea is to create a very high-intensity workout to burn fat while adding muscle tone. A great way to break up tired fitness routines and fast track your results.

Word to the wise…you don’t need a muscle-bound meat head yelling at you through the TV in order to benefit from metabolic training. In fact, you can do your own metabolic workout at home on your Total Gym! International GRAVITYMasterTrainer Michael Steel offers the following tips for creating your own at-home Total Gym metabolic strength training workout:

• Start by picking 3-4 total body exercises that you are comfortable doing. Then set a number of repetitions for each exercise, say 10-12.
• Plan to do these exercises in a circuit, repeating each exercise 3-5 times (depending on your fitness level) without stopping.
• As you transition from one exercise to the next, utilize your squat stand by adding a set of 10-15 plyometric jump squats in between to keep your heart rate up. Click here for a video demonstration of plyometric squats on Total Gym.
• Avoid taking any breaks until you’ve completed all 3-5 sets!

Now go get your sweat on!

We’re interested in hearing about your Total Gym metabolic workout! Leave us a comment with your routine.

Cassie is the Communications Manager for efi Sports Medicine/Total Gym and a published fitness writer.

Tom's Weekly Tip – Back to the Basics on Total Gym

Sometimes it’s good to go back to the basics. Whether it’s simplifying your life with less work or social commitments, or getting back to the basics of budgeting and saving to build your nest egg for the future.

With exercise, we get so used to doing our workout routines on a regular basis that we tend to forget how we got to this point. With repetition, you can also lose proper form as you get used to doing exercises over and over again.

There are so many capabilities and uses for your Total Gym that we thought you’d like to take a trip down memory lane to the first time you put your “booty on the board” and started movin’. You may even remember exercises that you forgot you could do!

Here’s GRAVITYMasterTrainer Rob Glick to take you back to the basics on Total Gym. This video has received over 30,000 views on our Total Gym YouTube Channel!

What are your favorite “back to the basics” exercises on Total Gym? Share your comments below.