CLICK HERE for a FREE WORKOUT!! www.turbulencetraining.com Today I’m going to show you the evolution of pull-ups, going from a beginner style to the hardest kind you can do. If you are new to pull-ups and cant do any actual pull-ups, you want to start with an inverted row. You will be underneath a bar and rowing your chest up to the bar. It’s a great way to start. You can do a beginner version of inverted rows by bending your knees. Hold onto the bar with an overhand grip. Keep your hips up and pull your chest up to the bar. Squeeze your shoulder blades at the top. This will help strengthen the muscles between your shoulder blades, the back of your shoulders and your lats. Once you are a little stronger, you can straighten your legs out, switch to an underhand grip. This will work your biceps more. For underhand inverted rows, you will have more of a narrow grip and pull your chest to the bar. Next well switch back to an overhand grip and back to a wider grip. This is back to working the muscles at the back of the shoulder blades and between the shoulder blades. You can put your feet up on a stability ball to give you more of a challenge. Those are all inverted row variations to get you started. Next are assisted pull-ups and chin-ups. You need to take the bar of your squat rack and set it up about head height. You will be doing the pull-up and chin-up movement, but you will still be standing on the floor. This is for beginners as well. Simply work as much as possible …
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Feb 11
Evolution of Pullups
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Feb 11
Fat Loss Workouts with TT Reconstruction Workout B
www.turbulencetraining.comVisit Turbulence Training to get your FREE sample fat burning workout. Click here to get started www.TurbulenceTraining.com And to get access to the #1 weight loss secret of social support and to ask Craig Ballantyne your weight loss questions, visit the Turbulence Training Membership site here www.ttmembers.com This is workout B of the Reconstruction workout program. You’ve done workout A as well as the off-day workout and so now you’re into another hard workout. Now in this workout you won’t be performing supersets, but instead trisets (3 sets of exercises with no rest in between). So, you will do a combined 2 trisets for a total of 6 exercises in workout B of the Reconstruction workout program. For your first exercise you have the option between Deadlifts or Dumbbell Squats. With the Deadlift, you will squat down in front of the bar and bring the bar right up to your shins, keeping your chest and head up, and then pull the bar up as you stand in an upright position. Next, slowly lower down, keeping the bar nice and close. What I’ve found is that many people cannot get into that low position because their body is too tight and not mobile enough, hence the need for the Reconstruction workout. If you are unable to do this exercise, then we have an alternative for you instead the DB Squat. With the Dumbbell Squat you are not required to go as low, but nevertheless, still a very similar movement. So for this exercise, as you squat down, place your …
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Feb 11
Fat Loss Diet Depletion Fridge Tour
www.ttfatloss.com This is Craig Ballantyne from TurbulenceTraining.com and TTFatLoss.com and I’m here with Bally the Dog in the kitchen and we’re going to talk about the TT Diet Depletion and the TT Diet Creep Challenge that’s going on over the month of June. The Diet Creep is a phrase I made up for something that happens to a lot of people like myself, possibly you, and often times the people who finish the TT Transformation Contest. These people are doing really well with their diets and then all of a sudden they start to fall back and get into bad habits. Now, for me personally, I didn’t get too bad, but I started to let a little extra sugar get into my diet and so I decided that for the month of June there’s going to be no extra sugar in my diet, no caffeine, no alcohol, and I decided to eliminate dairy as well. So, we are going to talk about what is allowed in my diet. Fist of all let’s take a look at the infamous breakfast bowl. This is the pecans, peanut butter and blueberries that you hear me eat almost every morning that I’m here in Toronto. You can also see that I have bananas and avocado in the background. I’ve also put in cut up banana into the bowl today. Let’s go into the fridge and see what sorts of foods I will be eating on the Diet Depletion for June and what I will be removing. So up there on the top level we have; strawberries, humus, organic kidney beans that I use for making chilli. I also have organic eggs, and a tomato. Then on the middle level …
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Feb 11
The Truth About Cardio
www.turbulencetraining.com Today I want to talk to you about burning belly fat and getting six pack abs, and the truth about cardio training. Now, whenever people talk about weight loss they always say “oh I’ve got to start doing more cardio”, it’s not true, not true at all! What you need to do is high intensity training to burn belly fat. In fact, if you want to get ripped abs and you want to burn belly fat, doing crunches and doing cardio, are two of the biggest wastes of times that you could possibly do. What you need to do is like I said, high intensity training. I was just talking to a doctor tonight who was a cardio fanatic and he recently got injured doing cardio. I also know a physio therapist who is addicted to spin class, but she can’t even walk right because she’s doing too much cardio and she’s getting into what I call the “dark side of cardio”, which is overuse injury. If you do a lot of cardio, then you’re going to end up in trouble. So I recommend total body training and high intensity training as they are much better at burning belly fat. Regular cardio is just ineffective and leads to overuse injuries. What I want you to do is something like interval training, using treadmills or sprinting, or even some more creative types of high intensity training, and include them at the end of your strength training workout. For example, you can try doing a series of 2-hand Kettlebell swings. To do this exercise, just put the KB between your legs and drive up with …
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Feb 11
Best Home Gym Fat Burning Workout – TT Intermediate Workout B
CLICK HERE for a FREE WORKOUT!! www.turbulencetraining.com This is the intermediate level Turbulence Training workout B. You will begin with the warm-up for the intermediate level and then begin your first superset with dumbbell squats and stability ball rollouts, which is a difficult abdominal exercise. So, for the db squats, hold the dumbbells at your sides at arm’s length with your feetslightly wider than shoulder width apart. Next, you will squat to parallel and then push back up while keeping your chest and head up. Be sure to keep your shoulder blades together and have a nice proud posture at all times for 8 repetitions. Move quickly over the stability ball rollout. To get in position for this exercise, begin by kneeling on a mat with the ball close to you and your hands down low on the ball. With your abs braced, rollout, stretching the abdominals, and roll back in. So, as you go out, keep your body in a straight line and feel the stretch and then contract your abs to come back up. Be conservative and only go out as far as you feel comfortable. You will perform all repetitions of this exercise and then rest for one minute and repeat the superset 2 more times for a total of 3 supersets. In the second superset of workout B, you will do a dumbbell reverse lunge which is like a split squat and pair that with a side plank. For the reverse lunge, hold the dumbbells at your side and step backwards, bend your front knee and drop your hips straight down, keeping the back …
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Feb 11
15 Minute Express Workout B
www.turbulencetraining.comVisit Turbulence Training to get your FREE sample fat burning workout. Click here to get started www.TurbulenceTraining.com This is Workout B from the Turbulence Training Express Program. This is a 15-minute circuit and you will go through these exercises for 30 seconds each. Each circuit will take you about 4 minutes, so you want to go through as many as you can in 15 minutes. Start with bodyweight squats with your arms straight out in front of you. Press your hips back and keep your chest up as you squat down. If you have sore knees or just aren’t strong enough for squats, you can do lying hip extensions in place of squats. Grab a mat and lie down. Bridge your hips up as you squeeze your glutes and hamstrings and slowly lower back down. Make sure the work is coming from your glutes and hamstrings and not your lower back. Next, you will use a bench and dumbbells to do dumbbell chest presses for 30 seconds. Be sure to choose a weight that will allow you to do about 12 reps. Use a tempo of a 1 count up and 2 count on the way down. Press up and in and slower lower down and out. You should be able to use the same weights for dumbbell rows. Place your knee and lead hand on the bench with a slight bend in your elbow. Your back leg will be slightly bend with your back flat. Row your dumbbell up. Do all reps for 30 seconds on one side and then switch to the other side. Keep your elbows tucked into your sides as you row up. Move onto step-ups with the …
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Feb 11
upper back exercises
CLICK HERE for a FREE WORKOUT!! www.turbulencetraining.com Here are the best ways to train your back at home with dumbbells. You can’t neglect training the upper back because it is one of the hot zones of fat burning in your body. Since there is so much muscle mass found in your upper back, you can really burn a lot of calories by training that area. However, a lot of people have problems training that area at home because they dont have access to a chin-up bar or an adjustable bar where they can do inverted bodyweight rows lying on the ground. So, this leaves us with a bench, dumbbells, and a ball. Fortunately, there are still quite a few different exercises we can do that will add variation to our workouts and help us enjoy them a lot more. The first exercise is the Dumbbell Pullover and it is going to train your abs, chest, and your lats. This exercise is a classic Arnold Era exercise. However, it is important to be conservative when performing this one, as you can really injure yourself if you try to do too much weight. There are a couple of different ways to do this exercise. One way is to do it lying regularly on a bench. Hold the dumbbell over your chest with a slight bend in your arms, and lowering the DB back over your head. You will begin to feel a stretch and using your lats, pull the DB back up over your chest. As the DB gets closer to your chest, then the chest muscles begin to do most of the work. An alternative method of performing the DB Pullover is lying …
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AAA ABS – FAT BURNING AB WORKOUT
CLICK HERE for a FREE WORKOUT!! www.turbulencetraining.com Are you ready for a butt-kicking, fat burning workout that will give you ripped abs? This is the best fat burning ab workout you can do. Let’s begin with the first superset which includes the Dumbbell Press Squat exercise and the Pull-up with Knee-up exercise. For the DB Press Squat, start by holding the DB at shoulder height with your feet slightly wider than hip width apart. Next, squat down, and then drive up, while raising the DB above your head. Doall repetitions for one side, then switch arms and do the other. The second exercise in the first superset is the Pull-Up with Knee-Up. For this exercise, begin by taking an overhand grip, and as you pull-up, bring your knees up to your chest, and then slowly lower back down. Although a difficult exercise to perform, this is a really great one because it’s actually two exercises in one. If, however, you can’t do the Pull-up with Knee-up exercise, you can easily substitute high repetition dumbbell rows (20 reps per side). By doing a high number of repetitions, your body is fighting against the rotation. Therefore, if you keep proper form and do high reps, your abs will actually feel it the next day. Just be sure to choose a weight that is very challenging, but still allows you to use proper form. For the second superset of workout “B” in AAA Abs, you will perform the Front Loaded Bulgarian Split Squat along with an advanced version of the stability ball plank, the …
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Feb 11
Upper Body and Abs Workout
CLICK HERE for a FREE Workout!! www.turbulencetraining.com The thought of having to do an additional 20-30 minutes of abdominal work after a regular workout can sometimes be enough for you to skip the ab training altogether. But, with these six upper body exercises, you’ll gain all the benefits and more of a regular ab workout, without the extra time. This 15-minute upper body workout will not only build your arms, your chest, and your back, but every one of these exercises is also going to work your abdominals. So this workout will include as I mentioned 6 exercises, but they will be broken down into 3 supersets at 5 minutes each. So, the first superset will pair chin-ups with spiderman pushups. Now, just because these aren’t specific abdominal exercises don’t think your abs will walk away unscathed. I remember training a client before and a couple of days after doing the chinup exercise she commented how shocked she was that her abs were so sore. So, with proper form, the chin-up exercise can very powerfully target your abs. For proper form, begin in the dead hang position. Now, keeping your body tight, brace your abs and pull your body up and chin over the bar, then in a controlled fashion, lower your body down. You will noticeably feel this exercise working your lats and your biceps. Perform enough repetitions that take you until one short of failure. For example, if you can do 15 repetitions, then only do 14 and so on. After the chin-up exercise, you will move into …
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Feb 11
Upper Body and Abs Workout
CLICK HERE for a FREE Workout!! www.turbulencetraining.com The thought of having to do an additional 20-30 minutes of abdominal work after a regular workout can sometimes be enough for you to skip the ab training altogether. But, with these six upper body exercises, you’ll gain all the benefits and more of a regular ab workout, without the extra time. This 15-minute upper body workout will not only build your arms, your chest, and your back, but every one of these exercises is also going to work your abdominals. So this workout will include as I mentioned 6 exercises, but they will be broken down into 3 supersets at 5 minutes each. So, the first superset will pair chin-ups with spiderman pushups. Now, just because these aren’t specific abdominal exercises don’t think your abs will walk away unscathed. I remember training a client before and a couple of days after doing the chinup exercise she commented how shocked she was that her abs were so sore. So, with proper form, the chin-up exercise can very powerfully target your abs. For proper form, begin in the dead hang position. Now, keeping your body tight, brace your abs and pull your body up and chin over the bar, then in a controlled fashion, lower your body down. You will noticeably feel this exercise working your lats and your biceps. Perform enough repetitions that take you until one short of failure. For example, if you can do 15 repetitions, then only do 14 and so on. After the chin-up exercise, you will move into …