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Tone Up Tuesday: Moves To Help You Improve

Side Single Leg Power Step-Ups

Muscles Worked

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Start
1. Stand beside box with feet straight and shoulder-width apart. 
2. Lift chest and tuck chin.

Movement
1. Squeeze butt muscles.
2. Place nearest foot on top of box and forcefully push off foot into air.
3. Land on same leg; repeat quickly.

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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Tone Up Tuesday: Moves To Help You Improve

Standing Cable PNF 

Muscles Worked

Start
1. Stand with feet straight and shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent.
2. Draw-in belly button, hold cable in one hand and extend arm across body toward weight stack - thumb facing front pocket on opposite side. 

Movement
1. Keeping arm straight, raise extended arm diagonally across body - as if drawing sword out of sheath. 
2. Rotate shoulder out until hand is eye level and at 45-degree angle to body, thumb pointing up.
3. Hold; return arm across body as if placing sword back into its sheath.

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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Tone Up Tuesday: Moves To Help You Improve

Box Run Steps: Front

Muscles Worked

Start
1. Stand facing 6-inch box, with feet in staggered-stance; 1 foot on top of box. 
2. Keep chest up.

Movement
1. In quick running motion, switch feet so that foot on floor is placed on box and foot on box moves to floor.

2. Pump arms and repeat movement, alternating legs as fast as possible.

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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Tone Up Tuesday: Moves To Help You Improve

Push Press: 1-Arm

Muscles Worked

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Start
1. Stand with feet shoulder-width apart.
2. Hold dumbbell in one hand at chest level, opposite hand on hip.

Movement
1. Quickly drive dumbbell overhead; simultaneously drive legs into staggered- stance position - back leg (same side as dumbbell) straight, front leg slightly bent.
2. Return to start position.

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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Tone Up Tuesday: Moves To Help You Improve

Single Leg Box Hop Up with Stabilization: Turning

Muscles Worked

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Start
1. Stand beside box with feet straight and shoulder-width apart. 
2. Lift chest and tuck chin.

Movement
1. Squeeze butt muscles, balance on one leg and lift other directly beside it.
2. Using arms, jump up and rotate 90 degrees to land on top of box on same leg; hold two seconds.
3. Step off box.

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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Whats your New You Fitness Resolution? Tell us and help motivate others 
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Use our Effective Goals Setting Strategies To Help You Reach Your Goals.
 Need More Help? We understand the challenges of health and fitness. It can be a daunting task, leaving you struggling to find the time, motivation and knowledge of exercise and nutrition.We can help you! With all the personal attention and support of a one-on-one session, virtual training allows you to receive customized workouts and food plans electronically giving you the flexibility to workout on your terms! For under $2 or with some packages as little as $1.20 a day you get the assistance of an NASM-Cretified Coach and the online tools to make you successful whatever your fitness goal! Just email us or visit our site Madsweat virtual-training for more information.

Whats your New You Fitness Resolution? Tell us and help motivate others

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Use our Effective Goals Setting Strategies To Help You Reach Your Goals.

 Need More Help? We understand the challenges of health and fitness. It can be a daunting task, leaving you struggling to find the time, motivation and knowledge of exercise and nutrition.We can help you! With all the personal attention and support of a one-on-one session, virtual training allows you to receive customized workouts and food plans electronically giving you the flexibility to workout on your terms! For under $2 or with some packages as little as $1.20 a day you get the assistance of an NASM-Cretified Coach and the online tools to make you successful whatever your fitness goal! Just email us or visit our site Madsweat virtual-training for more information.

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Weight Loss Wednesday Workout

Mad Weight Loss Level 1 Day 2 Week 2 (A 6 week Program)

Workouts designed to provide safe progressions for weight loss and general fitness to help you reach your fitness goals and avoid injury.

 We all have to start somewhere, how bout here…

Click on link below to download the full printable workout. 

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→ Download the Madsweat Workout of the Week 

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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Tone Up Tuesday: Moves To Help You Improve

Squat to Row : Alternate Arm

Muscles Worked

Start
1. Face cable machine, feet straight and shoulder-width apart.
2. Hold cables with arms extended at chest level.

Movement
1. Squeeze butt muscles and perform three-quarter squat.
2. Stand and row with one arm by squeezing shoulder blade and pulling thumb to armpit; complete row by time legs are fully extended. 
3. Repeat with opposite arm.

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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It’s science but not rocket science

Moving more than you have been prevents you from having to continually reduce your calorie intake in order to maintain progress. The more you move the more calories you burn and the more you can eat. Get Moving by doing any of the flowing.

Incorporate activity into your daily routine. You can do this by standing instead of sitting , taking short 10 minute walks throughout the day, park further away and take the stairs when you can.
Increase your daily steps. Purchase a pedometer to track your daily steps. There are about 2000 to 2500 steps (depending on your stride) in a mile.
Increase your exercise time or intensity. Burn additional calories by working out longer or harder. Add interval training to your routine or trying different activities will force your body to work harder.
Have a great day and stay active!

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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Tone Up Tuesday: Moves To Help You Improve

Medicine Ball Scoop Toss

Muscles Worked

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Start
1.Stand with feet straight and hip-width apart, knees slightly bent.
2.Stand facing wall.
3.Hold medicine ball at opposite side hip.
Movement
1.Squeeze butt muscles, tuck chin and rotate body, pivoting trailing leg. 
2.Toss medicine ball to wall as body rotates. 
3.Catch ball and quickly repeat with control on both sides.

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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Tone Up Tuesday: Moves To Help You Improve

Turning Power Step-Ups

Muscles Worked

Start
1. Stand in front of box at 45 degree angle with feet straight and shoulder-width apart. 
2. Lift chest and tuck chin.

Movement
1. Squeeze butt muscles.
2. Place one foot on top of box then forcefully push off foot into air, turning body 90 degree in opposite direction. 
3. Land softly on opposite foot on box and forcefully push off foot into air, rotating back to start position.
4. Repeat quickly with control, alternating legs.

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)

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Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends for 2013

Did you miss it?… The Annual ACSM Fitness Survey is out! So your saying tell us  whats hot!! Well just forget about all the fancy fitness equipment. Your body is the only equipment your gonna need for one of the hottest New/Old fitness trends: Body-Weight Workouts.

This years survey of fitness trends shows body-weight training, including some back-to-basics exercises like planks, push-ups and pull-ups, is expected to be one of the top 10 fitness trends of 2013.

We’ve been using own own body weight for centuries as a form of resistance training. But this is the first time body weight exercising has made it into the trend survey.  Some gyms are even packaging it as part of exercise programs. It cost you nothing but time and space so anyone can do it.

So get on with it you say! OK!
According to the survey, the top 10 fitness trends predicted for 2013 are:
  1. Educated, certified, and experienced fitness professionals takes the top spot in 2013 for the sixth consecutive year. —  And with jobs for fitness workers expected to rise faster than the average for all other occupations, according to the U.S. Labor Department (http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos296.htm, cited on July 27, 2012). The importance of obtaining certification through academic accreditation is now highly recognized by the fitness industry. 
  2. Strength training —  No. 2 for the second year in a row, strength training continues to be a strong (get it strong I make me laugh) trend. Now that everyone knows its not just for body building alone, people are now incorporating in some form to improve or maintain muscle strength.
  3.  Body-weight training — Body-weight exercises using little to no equipment and using exercises like planks, pull-ups, push-ups and squats. Example Workout ( Another Mad Body Weight Workout
  4.  Children and obesity — Exercise programs aimed at the problem of childhood obesity are also a major fitness trend. Schools are increasingly partnering with commercial and community-based physical activity programs to prevent and treat rising childhood obesity rates.
  5.  Exercise and weight loss — Consistently a top fitness trend, researchers say most popular diet plans now incorporate exercise to encourage weight loss. Example Workout (Weight Loss For Beginners)
  6. Fitness programs for older adults —  The baby boom generation is growing older and living longer. Physicians are recommending that these patients enroll in some form of physical activity, thus more opportunities for physical fitness are being provided
  7. Personal training — As more personal trainers are becoming certified, they are becoming more accessible in a variety of settings, such as corporate wellness, community-based, and medical fitness programs.
  8.  Functional fitness — Researchers define functional fitness as using strength training to improve balance, coordination, force, power, and endurance to perform activities of daily living. Functional fitness programs are designed to reflect actual activities done as a function of daily living and are often used in fitness programs for older adults. Example Workout (Mad Plyometrics)
  9. Core training —Core training stresses strength and conditioning of the stabilizing muscles of the abdomen, thorax, and back. It typically includes exercises of the hips, lower back, and abdomen, all of which provide support for the spine and thorax. Exercising core muscles improves overall stability of the trunk and transfers that to the extremities, enabling the individual to meet the demands for activities of daily living and sports performance. Researchers say exercising the core muscles in the hips, lower back, and abdomen improves overall stability for daily activities and sports performance. Example Workout ( Mad Core 2)
  10.  Group personal training —Group training is great for the budget-conscious. With the economic times being hard for both trainers and clients have become necessary.  This allows groups to have a discounted rate, while still giving the trainer a full schedule of clients.
This survey was completed by 3,346 health and fitness professionals worldwide and appears in the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal October 29, 2012 To read the whole survey go to ACSM Health & Fitness

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Tone Up Tuesday: Moves To Help You Improve

Lunge to Overhead Press: 2-Arm - Front

Muscles Worked

Start
1. Stand with feet shoulder-width apart.
2. Hold dumbbell in each hand at chest level (palms face body). 

Movement
1. Lunge forward, landing on heel of foot.
2. Stabilize, with front foot straight and flat, knee bent at 90 degree angle and directly over second and third toes; back knee bent at 90 degree angle, heel of back foot off ground.
3. Push off front foot (heel first) into standing position.
4. Press dumbbells overhead until arms fully extended.

5. Return to start position.

(Source: blog.madsweat.com)