workouts

What do NFL superstars do for their in-season workouts? Do they lift hard or do they skip workouts during the season? Well, Terrell Owens, a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, is a firm believer in discipline and making working out a priority in his life regardless of whether his team is in-season or not. Terrell was traded to Dallas from the Philadelphia Eagles a few years ago and has made a significant impact on the team’s success.

Terrell believes that success all comes down to three things: eating right, sleeping right, and maintaining healthy workouts. Low carb, high protein meals and six to eight hours of sleep each night are a few of the keys to his success.

Swimming is an excellent total body exercise and offers no joint impact or any such stress on the body like many other types of activities. Swimming workouts are perfect for any kind of rehab, muscle endurance, burning unwanted calories, controlling breathing, and a good way to switch up the workouts in general.

There are six types of strokes, all of which work almost every muscle in the body:

The Free-style stroke (with flutter kick) mainly works the deltoids, hips, quads, and hamstrings.

The Butterfly Stroke (with Dolphin kick) focuses on the complete lower body, deltoids, and chest muscles.

The Side Stroke (with scissor kick) mainly works the triceps, hips, quads, and hamstrings.

The Back Crawl (with flutter kick) emphasizes the deltoids, back, hips, quads, and hamstrings.

The Breast stroke (with “frog kick”) mainly targets the chest, triceps, and complete lower body.

The Elementary Back Stroke focuses on the deltoids and complete lower body. I have put together a list of exercises to help with your swimming and recommend doing three sets of twenty repetitions of each movement. Congratulations to Michael Phelps for his great accomplishment.

8 Exercises To Target Each Major Muscle Group

External Cable Rotation (Deltoid)

Internal Cable Rotation (Deltoid)

Cable Chest Press (Chest)

Leg Raise (Hips)

Leg Curl (Hamstrings)

Leg Extension (Quads)

Hip Adduction (Inner Thigh)

Hip Abduction (Outer Thigh)

Top 10 Cardio Exercises That Burn The Most Calories In 30 Minutes:

1.) Running
Running is the best cardio workout and burns serious calories. Depending on the intensity, you can burn around 500 calories in 30 minutes.

2.) Stairs
Stairs are an incredible workout as well. Stairs works the legs and glutes to death as well as your cardiovascular endurance.

3.) Step Aerobics
Step aerobics mainly target your legs, hips and glutes, and can burn approximately 400 calories in 30 minutes.

4.) Circuit Weight Training
Circuit weight training works muscular strength and endurance as well as cardiovascular endurance. This type of weight training consists of moving from machine to machine without stopping and works the entire body if properly done.

5.) Swimming Workouts
Swimming is another amazing workout. It’s not only fun, but a great total body non-weight bearing activity. Swimming burns around 400 calories in 30 minutes.

6.) Elliptical Trainer
The elliptical trainer is another great machine for burning those unwanted calories. It is a great way to build endurance and burn around 300 calories in 30 minutes.

7.) Super-Set Weight Training
Super-set weight training burns around 300 calories as well. It consists of bouncing back and forth between 2 or 3 machines. For example, do a set on the chest press then switch to a seated row then back to the chest press.

8.) Racquet Ball
Racquet ball is another fun and definitley not a boring one at that. This activity burns around 300 calories in 30 minutes.

9.) Biking
Biking is a good exercise as well. It can be done inside or out and depending on the intensity, you can burn bewteen 300 and 400 calories in 30 minutes. It is also easy on the knees and other joints just like swimming.

10.) Walking
Brisk walking is a less strenuous form of cardio and can burn around 200 calories in 30 minutes. Adding hills or incline will increase the intensity as well as the number of calories burned.

A variation of these cardio work-outs will eliminate boredom. Keep up the hard work!!