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Total Gym Weekly Workout – Kiss Your Gut Goodbye!

Healthy New Posts From “Fytness Fanatik” Amanda Lynn Hare!

New Total Gym Inside blog contributor Amanda Lynn Hare is a Total Gym user since 1998. Amanda Lynn is here to share her enthusiasm for healthy, fit and fun living.

Keep your gut in check this holiday season with Amanda’s favorite core strengthening exercises! Benefits include: a tighter midsection, stronger core (trunk and back) and improved posture!

Amanda suggests completing 10-15 reps of each exercise below (depending on your fitness level):

* Pullover crunch with legs in table top position

* Ab crunch with SCRUNCH (Now 50% Off! Click here)

* Crunch with hamstring curl using the Folding Foot Holder (standard on Total Gym Sport, GTS and PowerTower) or the Wing Attachment for XLS

* Crunch at higher incline (no hamstring curl)

Total Gym “Fit Before Feasting” Workout

You know you’re going to do it. The turkey, stuffing, candy-coated yams and butter drenched rolls – it’s all too decadent to avoid! You’re going to indulge on Thanksgiving; it’s tradition!

To help counteract the calorie-laden Thanksgiving meal, we’ve put together a full-body Total Gym “Fit Before Feasting” workout! Warning:  Feeling this good may cause you to make healthier food choices come turkey time!

Try to complete 10-15 reps of each exercise demonstrated below in 2-3 sets.

Cardio Pull - A great compound exercise to warm up the upper and lower body.
Cardio Pull

[Unhook cable pulleys from glideboard]

Squat Progressions - From single to double leg, to plyometric squats. You’ll feel the burn! Squat Progressions

[Attach cable pulleys to glideboard]

Flys and Curls - Sit laterally to perform single art chest flys and bicep curls.
Seated Lateral_Single Arm Chest Fly-Lateral Biceps CurlsAdvanced Cable Work – High-level progressions for shoulders, arms, chest and back, with recruitment of core stabilizers. Advanced Upper Body Cable Sequence

[Detach cable pulleys from glideboard and add/engage foot holder]

Hamstrings and Abdominals - Get an optimal stretch and flexion for hamstrings, while maximizing abdominal involvement
Upper Extremity Progressions

[Remove/disengage foot holder]

Sprinter Start – Explosive leg exercises that mimic a sprinter’s start to torch calories!
Sprinter Start

NEW Fun with Fitness – Upper Body Blast

Healthy New Posts From “Fytness Fanatik” Amanda Lynn Hare!

New Total Gym Inside blog contributor Amanda Lynn Hare is a true “Fytness Fanatik” (as you’ll see on her website) and a Total Gym user since 1998. Amanda Lynn is here to share her enthusiasm for healthy, fit and fun living.

This month, Amanda Lynn demos the creative and fun ways she’s spicing up her upper body training routine. Watch this “Fun with Fitness – Upper Body Blast” video to see Amanda’s favorite arm, chest and back exercises on the NEW Total Gym Sport to improve posture, prevent injury and develop lean muscle to burn more calories!

Total Gym Weekly Workout – Lower Body Blast

Try this Total Gym Booty Butt Blast to kick your lower body training into high gear! GRAVITY Master Trainer Peg Hamlett demonstrates her three favorite Total Gym exercises to challenge the lower body in minimal time!

See more GRAVITY :: Picks from our elite Total Gym GRAVITY Trainers here.

Peg Hamlett

Total Gym Weekly Workout – Single Cable Combination

In this week’s Total Gym workout, GRAVITY Master Trainer Rob Glick demonstrates how you can use a single cable to isolate one muscle group at a time. See how Rob uses core balance and control to progress through these advanced body positions on the glideboard.

Find more videos like this in the NEW Exercises section of TotalGym.com!

Advanced Single Cable Combo

Total Gym Weekly Workout: Tom's Favorite Upper Body Exercises

For the days when time is not of the essence, Total Gym creator Tom Campanaro demonstrates the upper body moves that he does to get a results-driven Total Gym workout in less time.

Those on the run love the Total Gym “GRAVITY Blast Series” offering 15-minute, muscle isolation exercises that work the agonist and antagonist muscle groups to feel the burn and see results!
Click here to learn more.

Weekly Workout – Total Gym Total Body Circuit

Join Doug Balzarini, trainer at Fitness Quest 10 and founder of DB Strength, for this high-performance Total Gym circuit workout. Try these 5 movements that Doug uses with his clients – ranging from MMA fighters, to pro athletes and every day Joes. Challenge the total body from lower body explosiveness, to pulling and grip strength, to core endurance. Perform in a non-stop circuit to really push your cardiovascular conditioning!