The BEST Total Body Exercise

So, out of all the exercises that are out there we all want to know which one is “The Best Total Body Work Out.” One that is efficient, portable and something that you can do anywhere and that will work everything. In one word that exercise would be called: THE BURPEE. Now, for those of you that don’t know about the Burpee, we have added a picture to show you  what it looks like so that you can see just how amazing this exercise is, but also, it works almost EVERY muscle in the body! That is pretty awesome considering just how many muscles there are in the human body.

It will work your legs, arms, core, and get cardio too! What more could you ask for? It will build you strength and will have you burning a bunch of calories too help you lose weight. Adding this into your workout routine will also help make things more challenging to help you progress to the next level or even just spice things up a bit.

How do you do a Burpee, you ask? Well, take a look at this image below to see how.

The person shown here is hopping into a push up position and hopping their feet forward and then does a jump when she comes up. You can vary the difficulty of this move by adding a push up or having your stomach touch the floor and then press yourself up to come up. For first timers or beginning level exercisers, doing the hop into the push up position would be best till you get used to it. It will be more than enough to make it challenging and difficult. Now, we challenge all of you to try and do just 10-20 of these little guys in your workout or just try it out at home.  They don’t take up much space at all. So there is NO reason not to do them! Before you know it, you will have a love/hate relationship with them and you will be amazed at how they work everything in your body.   Just be sure, like with any other form of exercise that you stretch out after you are done.

Committed to your health and fitness,
Justin and Angie LaPointe

Reboost Your Fitness Motivation: Blast Through Those Pesky Fitness Failures

Hey everyone!

Now is about the time where we all have been working hard on trying to lose weight, get fitter, healthier, and ready for summer.   Well, at some point we begin to lose motivation, get swept up in other things, start to feel burnt out, make excuses, or lose sight as to what we were working so hard for.

Well in the realm of fitness, health, and nutrition, there are a lot of excellent and informative resources.  We recently stumbled upon this article from LIVESTRONG “How To Beat 3 Common Fitness Failures”, which was the perfect sum up of things we have previously discussed about making you successful in accomplishing your goals, ditching that negative mindset of “I can’t” to “I can”, and reaching your goals.

The reason we are revisiting this is because at the beginning of the year we all hit the gyms hard and our nutrition harder.  But there is a time of the year that we need to have our minds reset, motivation boosted back up and to realize that we have come a long way (and you should be proud of what you’ve done) but if you aren’t were you want to be then let’s keep going.  Don’t settle. You can do this. We know you can. So, take a look at the article below and get recharged to be on your way to your new body!

http://www.livestrong.com/blog/how-to-beat-3-common-fitness-failures/

Committed to your health and fitness, Justin and Angie LaPointe