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Total Body Workouts

If you need workout ideas, these strength training workouts are for you. These total body workouts target all major muscle groups and include everything from straight set workouts to circuit training.

Quick Total Body Series

This total body workouts offers some traditional exercises, like squats and pushups, but in a unique way. Each series of exercises gives you an easy, medium and hard exercise. Do them all for a challenging workout or choose the level that fits your body, goals and comfort level. This workout fits all fitness levels.

Total Body at Home

Can't make it to the gym? These two workouts will help you lose weight and build lean muscles using basic equipment at home. Pictures and descriptions included.

Total Body Intermediate Workout

This total body workout is perfect for intermediate exercisers who want to work all of the muscles in the body. The workout includes traditional exercises, such as squats, lunges and pushups and requires various weighted dumbbells, a ball and a step or bench.

Total Body Blast

This total body strength workout includes a few unique twists such as supersets and tempo changes. Doing slow reps and pulses will really challenge your body and save you some time.

Total Body Strength, Balance & Stability

This total body workout is for intermediate/advanced exercisers and involves alternating bilateral (two-sided) moves with unilateral (one-sided) moves that will really challenge your balance and stability. Workout equipment includes weights, resistance tube/band, medicine ball and exercise ball.

No Weight Workout

This proves you don't need fancy equipment to get a great workout, no weights needed.

Office Workout

It's hard to find time to be active at work. These exercises can be done while sitting at your desk to help you strengthen and stretch your body throughout the day. No one has to know!

Resistance Band Workout

Finally figure out how to use that little rubber band for a great workout. Demos in QuickTime video format.

Short and Sweet 30 Minute Full Body Workout

Compound exercises will help you get the most out of your limited time. Exercises demonstrated in QuickTime video format.

Strength Training for Busy People

In this workout, you'll be doing compound movements using a medicine ball, weights and a resistance band. This is a tough workout that will challenge your balance and core strength as you do squats with overhead sweeps, side-to-side lunges, walking lunges with overhead presses and a crazy tricep kickback while balancing on one leg. Enjoy!

Total Body at the Gym

This total body workout hits all the major muscle groups in 30 minutes using a Smith machine. Pictures and descriptions included.

Total Body Resistance Band Workout

This workout includes exercises for the entire body using a resistance band such as pushups, squats, lunges and more.

Total Body Strength for Seniors

Try this basic total body strength training workout designed especially for seniors.

Total Body Strength Workout for Beginners

This workout targets the entire body and is geared towards beginning exercisers. Work your muscles with this short routine that requires no extra equipment.

New & Unique Strength Training Moves

If you're looking for something new to try, check out these four advanced exercises that target strength, endurance, balance, stability...just about everything. Many are moves you typically on see in powerlifting competitions, so make sure you know what you're doing before you try them!

Total Body with Ball and Resistance Band Kit

This new workout features Gaiam's Balance Ball Resistance Workout Kit--a series of straps that fit around your ball, allowing you to attach resistance tubes. It's pretty cool (and el cheapo). Check out a few things you can do with such a contraption.

Working Out at Work

It's hard to find time to exercise, but now you don't have that excuse anymore. There are opportunities everywhere if you pay attention.
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