| If you are ever tempted to buy some exercise | | | | Why should I know about sandbag strength training? |
| equipment from Body By Jake, stop. Wait ten minutes, | | | | You need to change your workout routine every 4-6 |
| take half of the money you would spend and let me | | | | weeks, give or take a week. If you continue to do the |
| show you something better. | | | | same workout your body gets used to that and stops |
| | | | producing results. Sandbag training helps with functional |
| Sandbag strength and exercise training is a little known | | | | strength. Functional strength is loosely defined as an |
| secret. This is old school so not many fitness "experts" | | | | exercise that mimics a specific task. So if you want to |
| are up-to-date on sandbags let alone the general | | | | become a better golfer you focus on exercises that |
| public. Let's take the concept of sandbags and | | | | mimic a golf swing Sandbag strength training is your |
| strength training and break it down. | | | | answer! |
| What is a sandbag? A sandbag is a canvas bag (I use | | | | What type of exercises can I do with sandbag |
| my old army duffel bag) with sand and used for a | | | | training? Any type of exercises you do normally with |
| variety of lifting exercises. Bag weight can vary from | | | | barbells/dumbbells or your own bodyweight. Sandbags |
| a few pounds to more than 100 to 200 pounds. The | | | | can be used for almost every exercise imaginable, |
| sandbag exercises require strength, endurance and | | | | including carries, rows, squats, rotations, lunges, and |
| creativity to figure out the best way to lift the | | | | military presses. Also you can do combos using other |
| sometimes lop-sided weight. Most sandbags are | | | | movements such as Turkish get-ups, shouldering into |
| composed of many smaller bags of sand inside the | | | | squatting, burpees into snatches, clean, squat and |
| large bag, which makes for easy weight adjustments | | | | press, and thrusters. But wait there's more! Combine |
| and less mess. You can do loads & loads of | | | | walking with movements,. This way you can work on |
| exercises with a sandbag, and remember the | | | | conditioning, static strength, strength/power, all |
| exercises can be the same as regular dumbbell | | | | simultaneously. Try walking with a sandbag and every |
| exercises and they can be totally unique to sandbag | | | | ten steps perform three to five reps of an exercise. |
| strength training. | | | | Walk and squat, walk and bent-over row, walk and |
| Who uses sandbag training? Alot of athletes and alot | | | | shouldering, walk and then clean and press. This is |
| of regular Joes like me & you. Those who are | | | | harder than you think, but oh so beneficial. |
| looking to mix things up a bit and push their body | | | | For functional strength, weight loss, cardio workout, |
| beyond what a typical dumbbell can do. You don't | | | | heck for any type of fitness level you are trying to |
| have alot of time-no problem. Sandbag training hits it all. | | | | achieve, sandbag training and exercise is for you. |