The Ultimate Workout Solution

Here’s some more kick ass content from my good industry friend Mike Whitfield. Serious read and deploy!

 

Mike Whitfield, CTT

Author, Workout Finishers

Once you read this, you will change the way you approach training with your clients and campers forever. That’s actually a good thing.

If you’re anything like me, you’re willing to learn and invest in yourself to simply get better. That’s what I’ve done for years in order to give my clients and campers even better results.

After all, that’s what they pay us to do, right?

Back in the fall of 2011, I released a program called “Workout Finishers” which was based exactly on what I did with my own clients and campers to get faster results, but more importantly, made them more consistent.

Had I not invested in programs from great coaches like Alwyn Cosgrove, Craig Ballantyne, John Romaniello and more, I would have never even tried using finishers with my clients.

 

But… What is a Workout Finisher? 

In a nutshell, a finisher is a VERY metabolically demanding superset or circuit (and yes, sometimes even just one exercise) with very short rest periods and they include some of the craziest, yet effective set and rep schemes you have ever seen.

It’s the perfect solution to replace long, boring cardio and even intervals for your campers and clients.

The goods news gets even better – they last just a fraction of the time that long cardio and intervals take. Some are as short as three minutes!

Workout Finishers Can Be Used

• At the END of ANY workout for an ultimate workout grand finale for improved conditioning and faster fat loss

• As off day conditioning and the perfect solution for people who are stuck on a plateau

• Some of the fastest workouts you can do when you are tight on time or have a very busy schedule (us as trainers face this a lot)

How Do Workout Finishers Work?

They just do. Next question.

Seriously – the real “secret” to workout finishers is based on one simple, yet brutally effective factor. That is the volume of work done in a short amount of time.

This is also known as “density”… and there is a lot of it.

In fact, that’s why Workout Finishers 2.0 came about.  I stumbled upon this study revealed in 2012:

Canadian researchers at Queen’s University tested a Workout Finisher style workout against long cardio.

(Reference: Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2012 Sep 20.)

22 college-aged women did 4 workouts per week for 4 weeks in one of three groups.

Group A did 30 minutes of treadmill running at 85% max heart rate

Group B did 8 rounds of 20 seconds of a single bodyweight exercise (burpees, jumping jacks, mountain climbers, or squat thrusts) with 10 seconds of rest between rounds.

Group C did nothing (they were the non-training control group).

Results:

Both training groups increased their aerobic fitness levels by the SAME amount (about 7-8%). That’s right, the short finisher style workouts (of 4 minutes) worked just as well as 30 minutes of cardio.

BUT…only Group B, the Workout Finishers style training, also increased muscular endurance in common exercises like chest presses, leg extensions, sit-ups, and push-ups.

And finally, the Finishers style of training used by Group B also resulted in greater overall workout enjoyment.

The Canadian Scientists concluded that this style of training will boost cardiovascular fitness just as well as cardio while giving you BETTER improvements in muscle endurance…

… All in just 4 minutes.

This ONE Study Impacted ALL Future Workout Finishers I Wrote

And sure enough, my readers and clients enjoyed this new change. The finishers became a little shorter, yet more intense.

Yet they were short, my clients and readers were getting even BETTER results.

So, What Does a Sample Workout Finisher Look Like?

That’s a good question, so let’s do one. At the end of your next workout yourself or with a client, perform this fun one. This is a great one to use with your camp or even group training because it uses timed sets so your clients can go at their own pace.

The Jump, Push, Swing and Climb

Do the following circuit three times, resting only as shown. If your campers or clients need more rest, that’s fine. They can simply jump back in.

Lunge Jumps (20 secs), rest 10 secs

Close-Grip Pushups (20 secs), rest 10 secs

KB or DB Swings (20 secs), rest 10 secs

Mountain Climbers (20 secs), rest 10 secs

Six minutes – Boom Done.

That’s why I HAD to come up with a new version of Workout Finishers. After all, if I could get even better and faster results in less time with my readers and clients, it was time to improve the original classic.

That’s exactly what I did with Workout Finishers 2.0. You’ll find 51 more fun and addicting finishers for yourself and to use with your campers and clients.

These fun workout grand finales are what kept my clients and campers coming back for more week after week.

But between you and I – I was more excited about their consistency to working out and them enjoying their workouts. That’s what it’s all about.

Plus, this gives them a permanent solution to never having to do boring cardio ever again.

 

 

To your success,

Mike Whitfield, CTT

 

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