Ever thought of doing physical exercise with a sandbag?

Discover the sandbag training, a very unconventional type of fitness.

Carry sandbags to restore physical form: that’s exactly what the sandbag training proposes, it is ideal to give you more power, more muscles and lose many calories. The working material is simple: a bag full of sand. How heavy you like, better yet, cheap. But beware: this is an exercise for those who want to train seriously, since it requires a lot of strength and balance. This form of fitness, due to its very hard nature, it was mainly practiced by the military, martial arts practitioners or by elite male athletes.

This “sandbag” is an unstable object, both in the form it acquires as in weight distribution, practitioners need to redoubled the effort so that the load becomes more stable, which requires a larger work your muscles. The instability of the training is a way to increase the effectiveness of it. This same instability can still be very useful to anyone who begins to train with this type of material, it does not result in injury as easily as other demanding exercises, such as dumbbells.

Compared to hard shaped weights, the sandbags require action of more muscle units, and require a lot of work of our body, making our metabolism to fire up and fat to be burned quickly.

The advantage of the sandbag is to develop the body in a general way, without need to resort to ten different machines to work different muscles. Thus, the entire core of the body is worked and strengthened. Another advantage is that when properly instructed and precautions are taken, you can do this workout at home, without the need to go to the gym.