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Are resistance bands an effective alternative to barbells and dumbbells? In this article, you’ll discover the benefits that resistance bands have over dumbbells and barbells and why they work as well as heavy weights for muscle hypertrophy.
Are you taking a balanced approach to resistance training? If you enjoy working certain muscle groups there’s a tendency to focus on those and neglect others. That can lead to muscle imbalances and injury. Here are four muscle groups many people ignore and why you should give them more focus.
Low Impact High Intensity workouts this month. Burn body fat, shape and define muscles, and gain strength and stamina all while keeping one foot grounded at all times. Don’t forget to support this with clean eats, water and quality sleep…Get ready for RESULTS!!!
Resistance training has lots of health benefits. Have you ever wondered what effect it has on your metabolism? After all, muscle is more metabolically active. As it turns out, having more muscle may be beneficial to your metabolism in more than one way. Find out what these benefits are.
Once you’ve gained strength and lean body mass and want to maintain muscle – how hard and how often do you have to work out? It’s harder to build strength and muscle than it is to maintain it but that doesn’t mean you can slack off. Find out what research shows about exercise frequency and intensity when you’re in maintenance mode.
Suffering from lower back pain? Should you exercise or rest your back? Find out what impact exercise has on back pain and what types are best. You’ll also discover the role exercise plays in prevention and treatment of lower back pain.
If you want to stay fit and functional as you age, you can’t afford not to focus on resistance training. Discover five age-related issues that resistance training helps with and why it should be part of your lifetime anti-aging plan.
You’re in a special class if you’re a female and regularly do strength-training, but have you ever how you compare to other women in terms of strength? This article highlights statistics about numbers of women who strength train and how strong they are on average.
So why do we offer two types of Upper Body Workouts in XTrain? Since XTrain is an undulating workout and is all about giving you more options it has been designed so that you can easily switch or mix the various Xtrain upper body strength workouts each week. This is why both 10 rep and 16 rep XTrain upper body videos work the exact same muscle groups. Read on to learn why Cathe structured the XTrain upper body workouts the way she did.
Want to keep your brain sharp? Try flexing your muscles. You may not see a direct connection between brain health and your muscles, but research suggests that working your muscles against resistance may protect your memory.
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
This is a picture from XTrain Chest, Back and Shoulders showing Amanda and Marlo recording their results between workout sets. In any strength conditioning workout it is important to use the correct weight if you want to maximize your results. Just as we did in STS we use One Rep Max testing in XTrain to help you find the
