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Tag: heavy weight

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Why It’s Important to Breathe When Lifting Weights

So much to think about when you lift weights. Form is one of them – but don’t neglect another aspect of weight training – breathing. Some trainers will tell you there’s a right way and a wrong way to breathe but the most important thing is to make sure you ARE breathing. Here’s why.

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XTrain Burn Sets Premixes

Burn Sets is an XTrain  Upper Body heavy weight workout that is divided into two main workouts: 1. Chest/Back/Shoulders 2. Bi’s/Tris We’ve also uniquely structured the  Burn Sets workouts to give you tons of options so that you can work individual muscles or try different combinations of  all your upper body muscle groups. We had

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XTrain Gives You More Workout Options

Xtrain is a workout series that has been designed to be used by different people in different ways. Take Burn Sets for an example. This DVD contains two time efficient heavy weight workouts: Warm Up, Chest/Back/Shoulders/Stretch  – 50:23 Warm Up, Bi’s and Tri’s/Stretch37:11 But you’re not limited by the two workouts listed above. You can utilize

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Xtrain Chest,Back and Shoulders Workout Time

This is a picture of Cathe getting ready to do a dumbbell pullover on a stability ball in XTrain’s Chest/Back/Shoulders. XTrain Chest/Back/Shoulders is another heavy weight workout in this series that uses weights slightly lighter than Burn Sets,  but also  has slightly higher rep ranges for each exercise. In this upper body workout Cathe keeps the boredom

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Jai and Amanda doing one arm rows in XTrain Burn Sets

  This is an XTrain Burn Sets photo of Jai and Amanda doing one arm rows. This XTRAIN workout consists of two traditional upper body heavy weight workouts: Chest/back/Shoulders and Bis/Tris. This workout also contains options for working individual muscle gro ups for those of you that want and need a shorter workout.In Burn Sets

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Weightlifting Myths Debunked

Hi Everyone!  Thank you for the wonderful feedback concerning my last few articles and I look forward to sharing more with you.  This week I’m focusing on unfounded myths concerning heavy weight lifting (heavy meaning around 60%  or more of your one rep max).  I have noticed there are many unfounded myths concerning the lifting

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Heavy Weights

Greg doing One arm Rows during STS Meso #3 using the 5% method. Don’t worry if you can’t lift what Greg can. You will always use your own 1RM when selecting a weight for any exercise.

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