Todays Workout

20 Box Jumps, 5 Pull Ups, 5 Heavy Sandbag Push Jerks. 5 rounds.

Record your time.

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Todays Workout - Sandbag Strength

Sandbag Back Squats and Pull Ups. Find the max weight sandbag you can get up onto your shoulders then perform a max set to failure with the weight. Immediately follow this with a max set of Pull Ups. Take a 3 minute rest and then repeat this sequence for a total of 5 rounds.

Record your total score and weight.

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Todays Workout

Squats, Sandbag Push Press, Sit Ups, Sandbag High Pulls. 1 minute on each exercise, max repetitions. Rest 1 minute between each set of four exercises and repeat for 3 total rounds.

Record your totals.

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Todays Workout - 10 to 1

10 to 1 of Sandbag Deadlifts, Press Ups, Pull Ups, Sandbag Zercher Squats. Complete 10 repetitions of each exercise, then 9, then 8 etc.

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Why Do You Exercise?

I do some consultation for the healthcare industry and I recently had the opportunity to sit down with a number of individuals and speak to them about their exercise, dietary and lifestyle habits. A large proportion of these people had the same response:

"I've hated exercise since childhood"

or

"I had a bad experience exercising once"

and even

"I don't like to get hot and sweaty"

It got me thinking - why do I exercise?

I enjoy physical activity and sports at lower intensity levels but the truth is, my training sessions are tough. When I go out into the garage I know that I'm going to be pushing myself to the point where I won't want to continue - the point where that one extra repetition feels like the hardest thing in the world. There is no point in 'sugar-coating' the fact that exercise, especially at the levels that are beneficial, is hard work.

So why do I do it?

No matter how hard the training session has been, afterwards I get a huge sense of achievement - even if I've just managed to add a little weight, do an extra repetition or on some days just get through it. I feel like I just climbed a mountain. That sense of success and elation is powerful and addictive. It's a change of mental and physical state.

While it's nice to maintain a low bodyfat, look good and be able to do lots of cool stuff - it's really about the state change that exercise brings. Everything else is just a bonus for me. And, after 20 or so years of consistent training I know that it works for me.

One thing I've noticed is that people who consistently fail to stick to exercise programmes have one or more of the following traits:

• They think exercise is a chore and they think the idea of discipline as being negative
• They overly focus on the arbitrary goals of aesthetics or weight loss
• They've followed bad advice without first asking "does this make sense to me"  

So, if you've struggled to follow an exercise programme before, try shifting your focus a little. Exercise is your opportunity to set goals and achieve them - not matter what they are. Discipline is a positive thing, especially when you are exercising control over yourself. I think this is one of the major reasons people don't stick to programmes - it's not that they are too hard, it's because they're too easy. Not only do they not achieve results but people don't feel challenged. I mean, if I had to spend the majority of my training time in the fat-burning zone I think I'd go mad. 

When people tell me they dislike exercise I have to laugh to myself as I imagine getting that 20th repetition in a squat set or finishing 100 pull ups and I think, "yeah, me too".

Todays Workout

Sandbag Fitness is one year old! So, you get to do:

100 Sandbag Thruster Burpees.

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A Big Hello to Our Finnish Friends

Take a look at Juha from Sandbag Finland getting in some good work.

If you have any sandbag training pictures we're always happy to feature them for you and provide a link back to your site.

If you want to get hold of a sandbag, like the one featured here, please see our friends at Brute Force Sandbags.

Todays Workout

Hi Guys, sorry for the delay since the last post - things have been so busy here.

30 Squats, 20 Sandbag Strict Overhead Press, 10 Sandbag Step Ups, 5 Strict Pull Ups. 5 rounds.

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Todays Workout

25 Box Jumps, 25 Sandbag High Pulls, 25 Sandbag Push Press. 3 rounds.

Record your time.

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Todays Workout

25-15-10 of Sandbag Thrusters (Squat and Press), Sit Ups and Sandbag High Pulls.

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Todays Workout

5 Pull Ups, 10 Press Ups, 5 Sandbag Deadlifts, 5 Knees-to-elbows, 10 Sandbag Round-the-worlds (each direction). 5 rounds.

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Todays Workout

10 Knees-to-elbows, 15 Sandbag Zercher Squats, 20 Strict Sandbag Overhead Press. 3 rounds.

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Todays Workout

25 Box Jumps, 25 Sandbag High Pulls, 25 Sandbag Push Press. 3 rounds.

Record your time.

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Todays Workout - Finally Hit Sub 10 Minutes..And Almost Sub 9

5 Pull Ups, 10 Sandbag Deadlifts, 10 Press Ups. 10 rounds.

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Todays Workout

10 Sandbag Push Press,
10 Burpees,
10 Sandbag Back Squats,
10 Pull Ups,

As many rounds as possible in 20 minutes.

Record your score.

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Todays Workout - A Double Dose of "Death By..."

Press Ups and Sit Ups. Complete one repetition of each in the first minute, 2 repetitions of each in the second minute and so on until you cannot complete the required number of repetitions of each exercise in any given round.

Record your score.

Follow immediately with:

Sandbag Back Squats and Sandbag High Pulls. Complete one repetition of each in the first minute, 2 repetitions of each in the second minute and so on until you cannot complete the required number of repetitions of each exercise in any given round.

Record your score.

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Todays Workout

10 Sandbag Deadlifts
10 Sandbag Thrusters
10 Pull Ups
10 Sandbag Power Cleans
10 Knees-to-elbows

4 rounds.

Record your time.

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