In my last post, I began relaying the Eternal Beach Body Workout from Men’s Fitness Magazine and how you can add resistance training to the workout while wearing a weighted exercise suit like the Reduxx TrimSuit. I have added my own comments regarding what I have found in my personal workout with the TrimSuit and this great exercise program from the T.R. Goodman article. Because the TrimSuit holds the weight on your body securely in place via the suit no matter how you move, the resistance training suit is perfectly designed for a workout of this type. The directions below are from Workout 2/Week 1. I recommend you try this workout with your TrimSuit today!

From the Eternal Beach Body Workout article by T.R. Goodman in Men’s Fitness Magazine:

Directions for Phase I [My Edits and Additions in Bold Italic]

FREQUENCY: Perform each workout in numerical order with a day of rest between each. The program includes three workouts per week. Each workout is a circuit that may include exercises from previous workouts but the sequence will be different.

HOW TO DO IT: Perform the exercises as straight sets, completing all the prescribed sets for an exercise before moving on.

WEIGHT: Unless otherwise stated, use the heaviest weight that allows you to complete all the prescribed repetitions for each set. For most of these exercises, you’ll need to be conservative. Focus on keeping perfect form and completing each rep without momentum.

Workout 2/Week 1 of our 12-Week Series

1.  External Rotation on Bench

Sets: 2 Reps: 12 Rest: 45 Seconds

Hold a light dumbbell or weight plate in your left hand and lie on a bench on your right side. Bend your elbow 90 degrees and allow your arm to rest against your left side, your left hand over your abs. Keeping your elbow against your side, rotate your forearm toward the ceiling. Reverse the motion to return to the starting position. That’s one rep. Complete 12 reps, switch arms and repeat. The weighted exercise suit adds additional resistance to this exercise with the placement of weights against the upper arm.

2.  Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown

Sets: 2 Reps: 12 Rest: 45 Seconds

Sit at a lat-pulldown station and grab the handle outside shoulder width. Pull the bar down to your collarbone, and then reverse the motion to return to the starting position (but don’t allow the weight you’re using to rest on the stack). That’s one rep. The upper body weights in the TrimSuit force you to keep your core tight in order to keep your form during this exercise.

3.  One-Arm Lat Pulldown

Sets: 2 Reps: 12 Rest: 45 Seconds

Attach a D-handle to the pulley of a pulldown station and sit facing the machine. Grab the handle with one hand with your arm extended overhead so that you feel tension on the cable. Pull the handle straight down and to the side until your elbow ends up at your side. Reverse the motion to return to the starting position. That’s one rep. Perform 12 reps, and then switch arms and repeat. Similar to the previous exercise, your weighted suit will cause you to tighten your core in order to maintain form throughout the exercise.

4.  One-Arm Cable Row, Opposite Arm/Leg

Sets: 2 Reps: 10 Rest: 45 Seconds

Attach a D-handle to the low pulley of a cable station and sit facing the machine with your left leg against the foot plate and your right leg bent. Grab the handle with your right hand and allow the tension on the cable to pull your body forward, stretching your lat, and then row the handle to the outside of your right hip. Reverse the motion, allowing your right side to rotate toward the cable and stretch. That’s one rep. Perform 10 reps, and then switch sides and repeat. The TrimSuit’s weights positioned on your arms, shoulders and chest will all play a factor in intensifying this workout.

5.  Stiff-Legged Deadlift

Sets: 2 Reps: 10 Rest: 45 Seconds

Hold a barbell in front of your thighs with palms facing you. Keeping your lower back in its natural arch, bend at the hips and slightly at the knees and lower your torso until it’s nearly parallel to the floor. Extend your hips and knees to return to the starting position. That’s one rep. The weighted suit works all muscle groups in the arms, shoulders, back and legs in this exercise.

6.  Straight-Bar Cable Curl

Sets: 2 Reps: 10 Rest: 45 Seconds

Attach a straight bar to the low pulley of a cable station and grab it with an underhand, shoulder-width grip. Keeping your elbows close to your sides, curl the bar up. Reverse the motion to return to the starting position. That’s one rep. The weights in the suit cause a stabilizing of your core and the lift in the shoulders keeping them up and straight.

7.  Seated Dumbbell Curl

Sets: 2 Reps: 10 Rest: 45 Seconds

Set an adjustable bench to an upright angle, grab a dumbbell in each hand, and sit on the bench. Keeping your elbows braced against your sides, curl the weights, and then lower them back to the starting position. That’s one rep. Again, the Reduxx TrimSuit forces straight posture and the shoulder weights cause resistance while keeping your shoulders straight.

8.  Bent-Knee Hip Extension

Sets: 2 Reps: 10  Rest: 45 Seconds

Set an adjustable bench to a 30- to 45-degree incline, grab a dumbbell in each hand, and sit on the bench. Keeping your elbows braced against your sides, curl the weights, and then lower them back to the starting position. That’s one rep. The placement of the leg weights in our weighted exercise suit makes this an excellent exercise for your hip flexors.

9.  Rollouts (High Groove)

Sets: 2 Reps: 15 Rest: 45 Seconds

Lie on your right side with your right leg straight and your left hip and knee bent 90 degrees, suspended over the floor. You can place your left palm on the floor for support. Keeping your right hip bone in contact with the floor, rotate your hips to your right and extend your left hip so that you’re reaching with the left knee, trying to touch it to the floor without losing contact between your right hip bone and the floor. Reverse the motion to return to the starting position. That’s one rep. Complete 15 reps, and then switch sides and repeat. This exercise is enhanced by the upper thigh weights on the TrimSuit.

10.  Bent-Knee Static Oblique

Sets: 2 Reps: Hold for 90 Seconds Rest: 45 Seconds

Support yourself on your right elbow and forearm and bend your knees 90 degrees and rest them on the floor. Your body should form a straight line. Hold the position for 90 seconds, and then switch sides and repeat. That’s one set. As in number 8 above, this exercise will be very intense because of the TrimSuit’s placement of all weights across chest, shoulders, arms and legs.

11.  Swiss-Ball Crunch

Sets: 2 Reps: 20 Rest: 45 Seconds

Lie back on a Swiss ball so that your hips are supported and allow your abs to stretch. Tuck your chin to your chest and crunch your rib cage toward your pelvis. Lower your body back to the starting position. That’s one rep. I don’t know if you have ever done Swiss-ball crunches, but try throwing in extra weight around your shoulders, chest and upper arms. This exercise is a serious ab and core burner because you have to lift and keep your balance at the same time. The Reduxx TrimSuit gives you much more benefit that doing this exercise without.

You have completed Workout 2/Week 1 wearing your Reduxx TrimSuit. The workout is relatively intense even without the weighted exercise suit. Adding the TrimSuit with targeted resistance to specific muscle groups provides more benefit than performing the exercises alone. Check back for Workout 3/Week 1 and call 1-800-434-3344 to get your Reduxx TrimSuit to provide a powerful resistance training suit to your workout!

Tom Coleman, Managing Director