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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!
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Summer may be coming to an end, but who says you and your clients can’t have great arms for fall! GRAVITY Master Trainer Michael Steel offers his tips to progress upper body exercises on Total Gym with a series of short and long lever movements to really turn up the burn!
Watch this video for Michael’s exclusive training tips:
The lower body contains our powerhouse muscles. You need to devote some precious training time to strength training the legs, which will help you perform daily activities more efficiently and stay injury-free!
Squats and hamstring curls on Total Gym are great ways to strengthen the legs. Spruce up your leg training repertoire with GRAVITY Master Trainer Michael Steel’s “Lower Body Exercise Series” that utilizes a lightweight medicine ball to add an upper body challenge and get the heart rate pumping!
Workout Outline:
Go for 2-3 sets of 8-12 reps for each exercise:
Single leg lunge w/ med ball overhead reach
Single leg lunge w/ med ball forward extension
Single leg lunge w/ single arm med ball shoulder extension
Single leg lunge w/ lateral med ball pass overhead
Plank w/ ab crunch (engages the core and challenges shoulder stability)
Plank w/ ab crunch – single leg
Single leg lunge (on the floor) varying foot position and legs w/ overhead med ball reach + side squat with med ball overhead reach
Switch legs and repeat
Take a peek behind the scenes of a Total Gym video shoot!
We just finished filming our next GRAVITY DVD releases! Without giving too much away, let’s just say you can look forward to high intensity interval training with international presenter Greg Sellar (even the fitness models were spent during this workout), a stretching/strengthening workout with renowned trainer Rob Glick, and a limit-pushing cardio/strength/active rest exercise series, featuring GRAVITY Master Trainers Michael Steel and Elizabeth Leeds!
Stay tuned for news about these hot new releases by joining GRAVITYClubhouse.com, where you can access the latest Total Gym GRAVITY DVDs, Trainer Tips and Garage Clips to progress your Total Gym workouts. It’s FREE to join, so why not do it?!
GRAVITY Master Trainer Greg Sellar introduces H.I.T.T. on Total Gym
The GRAVITY fitness models on set and ready to go!
Behind the scenes
GRAVITY Master Trainer Rob Glick teaching his new Total Gym strength workout - one of a three-part exercise series!
Our production crew monitors the Long & Lean workout in progress
The entire Total Gym crew - production team, trainers and models - still smiling after a long day's work!
We’re back with our third and final interview with former “Biggest Loser” contestant Tracey Yukich!!
Tracey chats with me about how she’s kept the weight off since leaving the show. Learn how she went from a size 22 and 250 pounds to a healthy 130 pounds. Here’s a hint: she did it with incline bodyweight resistance training:
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Tracey poses with Pure Fitness GRAVITY Trainer Dejinira
Last week we told you about our very special visit from former “Biggest Loser” contestant and Total Gym user Tracey Yukich. Tracey visited the Total Gym headquarters in San Diego on May 26 and 27 to pay our staff a visit (with some avid fans among us) and to make special appearances at two local health clubs, The Training Club in Del Mar and Pure Fitness Carlsbad, both offering the Total Gym GRAVITY workout. While there, Tracey participated in a GRAVITY workout and talked to members about her Biggest Loser journey.
While she was here, we snuck in an unscripted video chat with Tracey to learn more about her Biggest Loser experience—from the “aha moment” that caused a once 250lb. Tracey to try out for the show, to her experience on the Ranch (sharing insider information only heard here) and finally, how she’s keeping the weight off today.
Tracey Yukich:
Tracey Yukich is one of the most memorable contestants on NBC’s hit show “The Biggest Loser.” With a spunky attitude and southern drawl, Tracey, who appeared on Season 8, is known for achieving one of the most surprising post-show transformations as a contestant on Biggest Loser. Once a size 22 and 250 pounds, Tracey has slimmed down to a healthy 140 pounds thanks to a combination of GRAVITY Training on Total Gym, running, swimming and a newly-adopted vegetarian diet.
After leaving the Biggest Loser Ranch just a few weeks before her season ended, Tracey returned home to continue shedding the pounds. She discovered GRAVITY on Total Gym at Cooper Institute in the Dallas area and lost an additional 72 pounds. Today, she still trains on Total Gym at Cooper and also uses Total Gym GTS at home – and does she look great! Not to mention, she just ran her fourth marathon in April!
On Wednesday, Tracey paid a special visit to the Total Gym headquarters in San Diego. Myself and Senior Vice President of Marketing Joy Campanaro hosted Tracey for her two-day trip, where she made appearances at two local GRAVITY health clubs – Pure Fitness in Carlsbad and The Training Club in Del Mar. There she participated in GRAVITY workouts and spoke to members about her Biggest Loser experience. She also had a chance to check out the new Total Gym incline bodyweight trainer product line and meet our staff – with a few avid fans among us!
Truth be told, Tracey was unfairly portrayed as a villain on her season when, in fact, the opposite is true. Tracey is a determined woman, no doubt, but she has a heart of gold and as we discovered, she’s a true motivator, inspiring thousands of people with speaking gigs booked across the country.
Tracey Yukich with Total Gym's Joy Campanaro and Cassie Piercey (far right)
Next week we’ll kick off a four-part series of exclusive video interviews with Tracey. She’ll discuss the “aha” moment that compelled her to try out for the Biggest Loser, talk about her near death experience during the first competition on Biggest Loser and fill us in on how she’s staying fit today.
Read more about Tracey Yukich’s appearance in San Diego on the San Diego Magazine blog here.
Stay tuned for more from Tracey next week!
