Sandbag Workout for Women

You don’t need to join a fancy gym or buy a bunch of expensive equipment in order to get a challenging workout.  For $8.00, you can receive the most challenging workout you have ever experienced.  Just use a sandbag.  Sandbags have the ability to give you a great full body workout and they are effective for both men and women.

The non-cooperative nature of sandbags makes using every muscle possible to lift it crucial. Strength training with barbells and dumbbells or machines cannot provide this because the body is moving in a very ergonomic groove. This groove is “technique” and it is a big part of lifting.  It also allows you to lift more weight than you can when the resistance is non-cooperative.  When using a sandbag, “explosive” exercises such as cleans, throws, snatches, and shouldering cannot be performed with a great deal of efficiency and more muscles are called upon to complete the lift.  The core muscles (including those of the low back and abdominal area) have to work harder to stabilize the body against the awkward load while moving very quickly. This is very unique to sandbag training. With sandbags we can also create amazing rotational drills that place the body into ranges of motion that would normally occur during sport. Working through such ranges of motion with a load prepares the body more appropriately for the demands that sport produces. When we work on in very predictable environments we don’t give our bodies the ability to work through extreme ranges of motions under duress. Exercises such as shoulder throws, half moon snatches, and full body twists just provide a small list of exercises that one can create.