Non-Traditional fat burning workouts

Many people will train regularly for a few months and then will either get bored with the same old weight training and cardio exercises, or will get discouraged because their progress comes to a grinding halt after a while. You just need to have an open mind, goal & motivation to the huge world of various training styles and techniques that are out there.

Seriously, there are so many different and fun fat burning workouts out there, that there is no reason you should ever get bored with your workouts and give up on that lean ripped body that you've been looking for. All right, here are some of non-traditional fat burn training techniques:

Staircase workouts

This is great because stairs are everywhere. For an awesome full body workout, try mixing stairs sprints with an upper body exercise like pushups or pull-ups.

If done with a high enough intensity, stairs workouts help to create changes throughout your entire body due to the muscle building and fat burning hormonal response and metabolism increase that you get through working the biggest muscle groups in your entire body. If you thought that going up and down the stairs was the only way to get a good stairs workout... think again.

Kettlebell Training

Kettlebells are an alternative type of free-weight training instead of barbells and dumbbells. Their unique construction and weight distribution (basically a cannonball with a handle) allows for a whole different realm of exercises that's available compared to dumbbells and barbells.

Kettlebells let you perform intense workouts in half the time as traditional workouts. Kettlebells come in several weights and colors. Fit females begin with 15- to 20-pound Kettlebells and fit males with 25- to 35-pound Kettlebells. Just one or two kettlebells and you've literally got yourself an entire home gym that you can use for the rest of your life...worth every penny. Click here to get your kettlebells.

Mountain Biking

Mountain Biking is a super-fun, high-intensity, fat burning workout that will melt fat off of your entire body and build awesome legs at the same time.

The climbs can be tough and will challenge you both physically and mentally as you pump away trying to make it up steep hills without having to resort to getting off of the bike. It's such an addicting thrill... Just love it!

Rope Climbing

Rope climbing builds a powerful and ripped upper body like no other exercise. A great way to incorporate rope climbing into intense workouts is to do a climb up, then lower yourself back down. Then while your upper body is recovering for the next climb, you can do a lower body exercise like squats or lunges, or go up and down stairs. Keep alternating the upper body rope climbs with the lower body exercises in between and you'll get one hell of a full body workout.

Swimming

A great full body workout that stresses the muscles and joints in a much different way than most resistance training. Incorporating swimming workouts once or twice a week into your normal training routines can really enhance your physique, especially sprint style swimming workout.

For sprint style, swim as hard as you can to the other side of a 25-meter or 50-meter pool. Rest enough to catch your breath between sprint swims (about 20-40 seconds).

Try to keep the rest intervals fairly short with swim sprints. You can also mix different strokes (crawl, breaststroke, sidestroke, backstroke, butterfly) on each swim sprint.

Indoor (or outdoor) Rock Climbing

Rock climbing is yet another fun way to get in a great fat burning workout that will also challenge you both physically and mentally. Rock climbing is a great fat burn workout for your legs, arms, shoulders, and your entire back. It also really works your grip strength and forearms like crazy. Give it a try if you've never done it.

Rope Skipping

You can't beat rope jumping as a great full body exercise. Try mixing together two legged jumps, one-legged jumps, arm crossovers, double jumps (rope passes under feet twice for each jump) to keep things interesting and increase the intensity.

Also, try alternating 15-20 second high intensity bursts where you jump as fast as you possibly can, followed by 15-20 second recovery intervals where you jump slowly to get ready for your next burst. Get your own Jump Rope here...

Sandbag Training

This form of training is a nice variation to mix in with your strength training. It works your body with an unstable object, which makes muscles that might normally be neglected get in on the action to perform the movements. Sandbag training is a very intense method of training that works your muscles in a different way and gets you huffing and puffing like crazy.

You can make your own sandbags to train with by filling various sized duffle bags with sand, or you can use those construction type sandbags that come in several shapes. Sandbag exercises can be done as squats, cleans, presses, lunges, shouldering, throws or heaves, carrying up hills, etc.

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