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Hello Fitness Fans we are Real Fitness Reviews. My name is Steve Twomey joined by my co-host
Mike Porter. You know we get asked all the time how do we stay in shape when we are on
the road? Because Mike and I are both in outside sales in our 9-5 jobs. If you travel to hotel
rooms alot or if you are at home because you got stuck in a mega snow storm like we get
all the time in Northern Michigan,how do you stay in shape when you do not have access
to your normal equipment at the gym. Mike is going to go through some step by step instructions
on how to hit major body parts with minimal equipment. Basically we are going start with
one of these resistance bands you get get almost anywhere. These things are great! We
are going to do a couple upper body focused things first. Let's start with biceps. One
way to create resistance on the band is to stand on it. You can go back and forth alternating
curls. You can go to the front where you can hit a different part of the bicep. You can
also do shoulders. So now I can either do outerhead of the shoulder. I can also do the
front part of the shoulder with a front raise. Or if you want to hit all of the shoulder
muscles you can do a shoulder press. Now if you want to do triceps a great exercise
is the kick back. With Kick backs you want to work on the contraction of the muscle.
Keep you arm so it is at 90 degrees and do not move your shoulder. And you are going
to kick your arm straight back and lock out your tricep so the muscle is flexed as hard
as you can. Onto back. For the bent over row, you may have to spread your feet apart more
on the band to create more tension so you can actually feel it in your back. I can turn
around so you can see my back flexing. Another great one that I like to use is, if you are
working lower body is wall sits for legs. you sit against he wall try to hold your legs
and body a 90 degree angle. What I like to do is go for 30 seconds, take a break for
15 seconds and repeat this process for 5-6 times or as many as you can. That really gets
your quads burning pretty good. Another great back workout for real delts is you take the
band and hold it in front of you and spread it out. I keep my arms perfectly straight
hold it our in front of me and I am going to squeeze and flex my back when i bring it
back. It works everything from your rear delts, your traps your lats, pretty much everything
in your back.