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This Golf Strength Training Workout was built specifically to increasing the body’s force throughout the range of motion of a golf swing. The Fitness Blender Golf Stretching Routine and the Golf Balance Workout provide the necessary tools to improve your stability, range of movement, and control during a swing. This workout focuses on increasing strength to get a more powerful golf swing. Maintaining proper form and control while trying to do an exercise to build strength can be difficult; constantly check your form and increase weight or difficulty of an exercise only when you are able to complete the exercise with good form. Starting with slower motions and a lighter weight will help until you are comfortable with that motion and are ready to increase speed and weight. Golf Strength Training Workout Single Leg Dead Lift How it’s done: Stand on left foot with dumbbells in each hand. Slowly tilt forward from the hips keeping your torso and back completely straight. Try ...

This Advanced Ab Workout is very challenging. The wide range of advanced exercises targets your entire abdominal section, including both upper and lower abs, and obliques. This routine pulls from strength training moves and Pilates to create a killer ab workout you can do at home, and you won’t need a single piece of equipment. If these exercises are too difficult, try this 20 minute Fitness Blender abs workout video , and do easier versions and modifications of the exercises that are more suitable for beginners. Remember that you can make your workouts more effective if you keep your body guessing by mixing up your routine. Look through Fitness Blender's home workout videos for more ab videos that you can do at home. Make sure that you warm up before jumping into this workout. For best toning results, do the actual routine after about 30 minutes of cardio. How to do this Killer Ab Workout Do 15 repetitions of each advanced ab exercise. Do the entire workout three times thro...

Treadmill workouts can be a seriously effective tool for losing weight, increasing cardiovascular health, toning, or just getting into overall good shape. The problem with most people’s treadmill workouts is that they aren’t tuned in enough to what they are doing. Don’t get me wrong; you burn more calories on a treadmill reading a magazine or watching a talk show or sports game than you do sitting on a couch…but, you also miss the opportunity to capitalize on an hour or so that could yield you much more noticeable and profound fitness gains. Working out, or moving at all in general, is always better than staying sedentary, but at some point you have to start considering whether or not you really want to look and feel fit. If you are serious about attaining your fitness or weight loss goals, start paying real attention to your workouts. When you pay attention to your workouts, you’re more likely to push yourself, which is a necessity for seeing progress i...

This 10 Minute Pilates Routine effectively targets the upper and lower abdominals, obliques, and back. Many of these Pilates exercises also target and tone the glutes and thighs. Having a strong core can protect the back from injuries and ailments such as sprains, stiffness, and even bouts of sciatica . Pilates is excellent for gaining core strength and this beginner routine is the perfect way to start building a stronger midsection that will be less prone to injury. Doing this abs workout just twice through will make for a 10 minute Pilates routine. To garner the most toning benefits, do this three times through, every other day of the week. The only equipment that you will need is a thick Pilates mat. How to do this Beginner’s Pilates Workout Do each exercise for the set time period or indicated number of repetitions. Do the entire routine at least twice through, but three times through in order to make the most gains in strength, flexibility, and muscle tone. 30 Seconds Pilat...

Dumbbells are an excellent piece of equipment to buy for a home gym of any size. As you can probably tell from our large video library of exercise videos, we are big fans of bodyweight exercises. You really don't need a gym in order to get fit, but there are a few very simple and inexpensive tools that infinitely increase the number of exercises you can do and the muscle groups that you can hit. Dumbbells are definitely one of those essential pieces of equipment. In fact, if you were only going to buy one or two things, dumbbells would be one of 2 (including an exercise mat and maybe a physioball) near necessities that I would recommend purchasing. One popular option available for this particular fundamental fitness device is the adjustable dumbbell variety. When you buy an adjustable dumbbell set you significantly reduce the amount of necessary storage. This can be especially helpful if you don't have an entire room dedicated to your home gym; these can usually be tucked awa...

Traditionally, the distribution of exercise preference between genders in the gym trends towards women being cardio-crazed, and men sticking to weightlifting. The reality of the situation is that most exercisers wont achieve their body weight goals or genuine fitness without a combination of both cardio and strength training. Though the myth is slowly being dispelled, many women still steer clear of lifting weights in an effort to avoid “bulking up”. In pursuit of the lean, slender physique, women tend to spend the majority of their time hoping to burn calories on cardio machines. What they don’t realize is that they are shortchanging the health and strength of their bodies, as well as their own fitness and weight loss goals. What should debunk the myth feeding into the apprehension of building bulging muscles is that women do not physically possess the levels of required hormones that, in the male body, lead to the bulky muscle build. Even if a woman tried, she wo...

When training for competitive sports, speed and agility drills are great functional training tools that can help increase your competitive edge. Building strength, control, speed, and a quick reaction time are all parts of agility on the field or court that need to be addressed. Functional training is the best way to train the body for a sport, as it has direct application to the type of movements performed during competition. The following is a two-day agility and speed training workout program that can be used in various physically demanding sports, such as; soccer, basketball, football, field hockey, volleyball, tennis, rugby, and many more. Agility and Speed Training Workouts Day One (Strength) Warm Up (10 -15 minutes of any kind of light cardio) Cycle 1 Complete 3 sets of these three exercises with their corresponding repetitions: - Side Plank with Leg Raise (L&R) - 12 reps - Clock Lunge (L&R) - 3 reps - Side Hip Raise (L&R) - 12 reps Cycle 2 This cycle is done i...