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Men’s Health Spartacus Workout


Spartacus Workout, is it for you? Have you ever wondered how the actors in the popular television program, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, developed those sculpted muscles and well-defined abs and chest? They went through a specially-designed, high intensity workout program that burned belly fat and developed their muscles. The Men’s Health Spartacus Workout program is patterned after the muscle-building workouts of the actors in the TV program, and can help you boost endurance, burn fat, and get ripped abs.

Some people say that the actual Spartacus Workouts used to get the actors in shape are a hundred times more challenging than the routines in the Men’s Health version, but anyone who has picked up the Spartacus Workout Challenge will tell you that the exercise circuit is no walk in the park.

Framework for Men’s Health Spartacus Workout

The Spartacus Workout consists of 10 exercises carefully selected to collectively workout different parts of the body. The exercises are grouped together in a high-intensity circuit that will burn body fat, develop the muscles, and boost your endurance level. Each circuit has two stages with 5 exercises in every stage.

Mens Health Spartacus Workout

Spartacus Workout

The workout program is designed to be done three days a week. Perform one set of each exercise, called a “station”, in succession. Each station is allotted 60 seconds and you can do as many reps as you can, with perfect form. You can rest for up to 15 seconds between stations. Rest for 2 minutes after completing one circuit.

Exercises for Spartacus Workout

Exercise routines for Men’s Health Spartacus Workout consist of a variety of exercises that will challenge your heart, lungs and muscles. Some of the exercises include: Squat Pull and Thrust, Offset Reverse Dumbbell Lunge, Squat to Shoulder Press, Single Leg and Arm Dumbbell Row, Plank Walkup, Jump Squat, and Single Leg Deadlift with a Twist.
When using weights, choose a weight that is challenging for 15 to 20 reps.

Does the Spartacus Workout Work?

Designed by fitness experts Adam Campbell and Rachel Cosgrove to get the Spartacus cast in rock-hard shape, the Spartacus Workout is definitely effective and challenging. The great thing about this routine is that it burns fat while building muscle. You can also do the exercises with or without dumbbells, depending on your level of fitness and strength. This option also allows you to decide whether or not you should invest in additional equipment.

Soon after the release of the original Spartacus Workout, the Spartacus Workout 2.0 came out. The all-new Spartacus Workout 3.0 is also available these days. If you’re looking for a structured routine that will challenge your endurance and strength, give this workout a try.

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Reasons Why Treadmill Workouts Are Great Exercise


Treadmill workouts are a very popular activity, but why teadmill workouts you may wonder? While it is true that exercises come with many benefits, not all of us are able to keep up with our regular workout routines, sometimes out of lack of time, and at other times out of plain lethargy. In this article I would offer you one workout idea which would virtually make fitness as easy as pie for you.

Why Treadmill Workouts Are Great Exercise

Treadmills are one of the most popular home exercise equipments out there. It should be in the house of anyone who cares even a little bit about their health. Okay, I know that the treadmill needs no introduction, but are you aware of all its benefits? If not, then this article is for you.

Huge time saver: Many people cannot workout regularly because of lack of time. They have a job to handle as well as a family to look after. Add social pressure to the mix and you could get an idea of how much stressed and busy an individual could be these days.

Thankfully, with treadmill workouts, lack of time won’t hinder your fitness routine. Being a home-based equipment, you can exercise whenever you want. You can choose your workout routines flexibly. For example, if you are supposed to exercise for 30 minutes per day, you could do 15 minutes of workout before going to office and the other 15 minutes just before bedtime.

Reasons Why Treadmill Workouts Are Great Exercise

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Less boring and strenuous: Exercises like aerobics bore the hell out of you because you need to do them for hours in order to derive any decent benefit from them; plus they also command your concentration all the time; naturally, by the time you are finished with them, you feel as if you would never be able to repeat the exercise again.

On the other hand, if you do intense workouts like weight training, they would take much less of your time but are too strenuous for an average individual. If you have never done it before, you would find weight training and boring.

Treadmill workout is however one exercise which fits the bill perfectly for almost everyone. It is neither too boring nor strenuous. If you run or walk on the treadmill, it won’t be any different than plain walking or running on road, except that the treadmill workout would command much less attention and time from you than the latter. Being less demanding compared to other exercises, it doesn’t bore you either.

Secure and private: Many people feel uncomfortable at the prospect of going to a gym or hiring a fitness trainer. They believe that their proactive approach towards health and fitness would be perceived wrongly by their peers and relatives; they would think that they are doing all these in order to get rid of obesity. It is not unusual, especially at backward societies, to notice a group of people poking fun at someone who is heavy on workouts.

However, a treadmill, being secure in the privacy of your home, is safe from the prying eyes of your neighbors and buddies. You can exercise for as long as you want and whenever you want; no one would ever know about it.

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10 minute workout

I always look for a quick workout and a 10 minute workout sounds great to me. This is a busy time of year for a lot of people and I am no exception. I slacked a little over the last couple of weeks with my workouts and here I am at 5:30 in the morning, when I should be sleeping sitting on the computer.

I am pretty happy though because I just got a workout in.

Nothing feels better than working successfully towards your goals and so I am pretty excited to be back on track. You could get on track to and if you are smart about it you can get in some short 10 minute workouts and feel like I feel this morning (although you may not want to get up this early for a workout).

How can you get any kind of workout in 10 minutes?

10 minute workout

10 minute workout

10 Minute Workout

Well Craig Ballentyne, the Turbulence Training guy, gave me this 20 page guide that gives you a four week plan of 10 minute workout plans to get yourself going. Not only is there 5 sample 10 minute workout routines but there is also 10 tips to safe workouts and a some stretches to get you all limbered up. The guide has lots of pictures to so that you don’t have to guess what the exercise should be like.

The best thing about the 20 page guide is that it is free.

Just click this link and the guide will open up the pdf right in your browser window, it is an Adobe Acrobat file.

This is a great deal (free is always good in my book). Let anyone that you think is interested know about it and we can all get in great shape by the new year

Take this 10 minute workout or one of the many in the book and see what you can do over the next few days.

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10 minute workout

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