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Outdoor Strength Training and Toning Exercises

In this stair workout video Kim Lyons demonstrates exercises for the stairs that can be done outdoors or in your home. It’s especially great if you are doing some cardio exercise outside such as biking or running and you don’t want to come indoors for a workout. In this way you get to enjoy being outdoors along with incorporating some strength training exercises into your outdoor workout. This stair workout is great for toning and fat loss.

This video is excellent in the sense that Kim Lyons shows you several different exercises working different parts of your body both beginner and advanced exercise versions. She explains each exercise and how you should be properly performing them. Unfortunately I find that the video picture quality is very poor, very pixilated. Regardless, the content on this video is excellent!

She begins with the Windmill Pushup on the stair. She shows you the beginner and more advanced versions. They are basically the same. The only difference is that for the advanced version you are going more against gravity, therefore it’s a much tougher exercise.

She then shows you a calf workout and side lunges and encourages that you do some cardio in between these exercises.

Her final exercise (which is an advanced exercise and quite difficult) she calls Spider Monkey Stairs.

Here’s Kim Lyons from Fast Track To Fat Loss

You may prefer to rest between weight training sets, but here is a great exercise with variations for your abs from Kim Lyons of Fast Track to Fat Loss. Not only does this exercise work your abs real hard, it also improves your balance and posture. Balance and form are really critical when doing this exercise properly since it is done on a bench. Kim Lyons does an excellent job in showing you how your body should be aligned when performing this type of abdominal crunch on a work bench at the gym or in your home. She also shows you the proper movement as well as variations of this exercise that will also work your obliques.

Also, doing a different exercise for a different part of your body in between your weight training sets is great if you are in a hurry and you want to do a quick and effective workout.

Kim Lyons, Fast Track To Fat Loss

Here is an excellent video from Kim Lyons for your shoulders. She demonstrates several different shoulder exercises that work out and target the shoulder muscles from 3 different angles with several variations for each and excellent explanations for proper form and technique and what to look out for when doing each of these exercises.

In the first exercise, she demonstrates front shoulder raise for the front deltoid muscles using different gym equipment beginning with an 8-Pound Exercise Ball.

In the second exercise she works the medial (middle) deltoid muscles using Basic Resistance Bands
for lateral raises as well using dumbbells.

She also gives you an example of a rear deltoid exercise. Many people tend to neglect the rear deltoids.

I feel that it’s very important to work out your shoulder muscles. Strong, toned and sculpted shoulders also add to a beautiful physique for both men and women. I hope you learn a lot from this excellent shoulder video.