Creating Ultimate Sandbag Workouts

  Ultimate Sandbag workouts don’t seem to fit the typical training regime. At least that is what a lot of people think and to be honest, they are pretty much right! COULD you make Ultimate Sandbag workouts look like some of the more common gym type of workouts? Yea, you could, but I don’t think that is taking full advantage of the power of Ultimate Sandbag workouts.   This doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything else for the week. In fact, it will help you recover from your training and help you make faster progress if you can raise your activity level, but keep the intensity down. Like what? Stretching, yoga, hiking, basically low intensity activities that keep you moving and hopefully in ways that help you stretch out from your intense Ultimate Sandbag workouts. Ok, what are your Ultimate Sandbag workouts going to look like? We are going to base the workouts off of movements, not exercises. That way you can have a lot of options to vary, progress, and really enjoy your Ultimate Sandbag workouts. Here is a short list of possible movements for your Ultimate Sandbag workouts: -Squatting -Overhead Pressing -Lunging -Rowing -Lower Body Pulling -Horizontal Pressing You could add in direct core work, or even rotational training, but I am keeping it relatively simple right now for your Ultimate Sandbag workouts. So, let’s break it down a bit further so you can see all the options you have and then we will layout how you construct your own Ultimate Sandbag workouts. Ultimate Sandbag Squats: -Bear Hug -Front Loaded (Zercher) -Shoulder -Staggered Bear Hug -Staggered Front Loaded -Staggered Rear Shoulder -Staggered Front Shoulder Ultimate Sandbag Overhead Press Change Body Position. This doesn’t exhaust our options, but gives you a good framework for your Ultimate Sandbag workouts.

-Bilateral Press -Military Press -Staggered Press -Kneeling Press -Half Kneeling Press Ultimate Sandbag Lunges, we will keep the direction you lunge the same (drop step) and then you can always change after you exhaust some of these options for your Ultimate Sandbag workouts.

Having the USB on the same side as the lead leg or opposite side is a simple way to make a DVRT exercise more difficult or easier. 

-Front Loaded -Rear Hip -Front Hip -Rear Shoulder -Front Shoulder -Overhead -X-Pattern Ultimate Sandbag pulls mean when you have the hips “pulling” the Ultimate Sandbag upwards. There are A LOT of options here when you mix in all the variables in Ultimate Sandbag workouts. Here are but a few….   No shortage of easy ways to take a couple of USBs and have plenty of phenomenal Ultimate Sandbag workouts -Front Loaded Good Mornings -Power Cleans -Single Leg Deadlifts -Shouldering -Single Leg Front Loaded Good Mornings -High Pulls -Snatches -Lateral Lunge Clean -Rotational Lunges One of the most overlooked aspects of Ultimate Sandbag workouts is the use of rowing movements. These are very important to help balance out the shoulder joint and again, for now, we will just change the body position, but hand position is another great way to expand with your Ultimate Sandbag workouts. -Bilateral -Staggered -Back Foot Elevated -Single Leg -Lateral Lunge While Ultimate Sandbags aren’t ideal for bench pressing (although can be done), there are a lot of great drills where we can perform similar movements that will also hit the core to a high degree. -Bird Dog -Lateral Bag Drags -Supine Arc Press -Press to Leg Raise Once you start seeing some of these ideas in your Ultimate Sandbag workouts on paper, you can start seeing how the workouts we provide you fit into these models. Watch today’s training video and see how you can identify the Ultimate Sandbag movements. Next time we will talk about reps and sets and of course how they mix into creating your Ultimate Sandbag workouts!