New Year, New "300" Workout

The New Year means resolutions and the intention of making major changes. The New Year gives us a sense of starting fresh and wanting to attack our goals with excitement. This goes equally well for your fitness goals, but the obvious question is, "where do I start?"

The New Year also means that I have an opportunity to share with you new training ideas that I have been working on. So, my goal is to answer your question of, "where to start". Coming next week is a full program that will really take care of all of your training questions, but I don't want to wait a day longer to share some of the cool things we are going to be doing.

A few years ago the movie "300" not only broke some box office records, but had a profound impact on the fitness industry. Many loved the idea of functional training and the goal of getting 300 repetitions as fast as possible. However, some didn't understand the positive nature of such training.

If we look past the simple hype of looking like an ancient warrior we can see such a method can be used in our density training model. As I have discussed in the past, density training is a very effective training method to improve strength and endurance. The concept is relatively simple as well, it is about trying to perform work in less time. Used wisely one can build muscle and lose fat at the same time because the volume of work is done to achieve greater muscle, but the calories are burned and the rest intervals are short to induce better fat loss.

The 300 workout was about using compound exercises to complete the workout in a minimal amount of time. For those short on workout time and want to maximize their training time, the 300 workout is ideal. However, there is more than one way to create such workouts and that is why we are starting off the New Year by giving you a 300 workout with some of my new favorite training tools.

We have begun to compliment our sandbag training with two other tools that have a long history of producing incredible results as well; the mace and kettlebell. For those that are unfamiliar to mace training, it is a style of training that has been used by some of the greatest athletes in the world's history. Used to develop strength, endurance, core strength, shoulder flexibility, and amazing grip strength. For a long time it has lost favor just as kettlebells and sandbags suffered. Now you can get the benefits of mace training with our loadable mace! Trust me a little bit goes a long ways!

Also, we are introducing the Bulldog line by my friend Anthony Diluglio. Anthony created a line of kettlebells that are loadable which completely changes the feel of kettlebell training. Not only that, he has them in different sizes that will forever change how you approach your kettlebell training.

See how I put it all together in today's video:



In Strength,
Josh Henkin, CSCS
http://sandbagfitnesssystems.com