What’s one of the most common reasons that people give up on their exercise program (and as a result don’t get the results they’re looking for)?
The answer is BOREDOM!
For some reason, most people keep falling into the trap of doing the same exercises, the same workouts, the same routines over and over and over again in the gym.
And that’s not going to work for 2 reasons:
1) Your body needs new stimuli to cause it to grow and improve. If you keep doing the same thing every time, your body will get used to it real quick and will adapt to it, meaning that it will no longer be challenging you to grow and improve your fitness and fat loss levels.
2) Mentally, you need to keep things fresh in order to keep them motivating. Unless you’re one of the few people who thrives on repeating the same things over and over, you’re likely going to get bored and lose interest without any variety.
So today, I want to challenge you to really think outside the box when it comes to your fitness and try something entirely new: upper body cardio.
Upper body cardio? What’s that!?
Well, I’ll tell you. It’s the kind of stuff you’d normally do for your conditioning exercises, only you’re now going to use your upper body instead of your lower body. Confused? You won’t be after you watch the video below:
If you’re not rearing to try out some of those exercises and take your fat loss to a whole new level after watching that video, then you must be crazy! (Only joking – but really, you’re gonna love them!)
Try adding them to your program at the end of your workouts or as fillers between sets and watch the pounds drop off like never before.
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2 Comments Received
May 18th, 2010 @4:05 pm
4 out of the 5 exercises you show in the video include your lower body! You can’t do ANY of them if you have a lower body injury (in my case, it’s a damaged knee). This video was USELESS!
May 31st, 2010 @4:56 pm
There are many different progressions and variations that you can use for these exercises. I originally came up with them for a friend who broke his ankle playing sports and still wanted a way to do some cardio and keep himself fit, so the progressions I show are designed for a fit person like him who could withstand just propping himself up on his toes and doing all the work with his upper body.
If that is not manageable for you then you can modify these by having your hands raised up on a table or higher surface which will take most of the weight off your feet, or you could have your legs propped up on a bed or chair instead of having your toes on the ground.
All it takes is a little creativity and you could easily perform all of these exercises without ever using your lower body at all.
Hope that helps.
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