Nutrition Tips for Strength & Conditioning

Series Summary

Though strength training with free weights and machines is very popular and a great way to build muscle mass there are other techniques to build muscle and tendon strength, endurance, and muscle mass. One such technique is Bodyweight Exercise which is done solely using the weight of your body to workout your muscles. Using this technique it is possible to get total body workout.

In this free bodyweight exercise training video series trainer Corey Beasley demonstrates a wide variety of bodyweight exercises including: the prone cobra, superman, side bridge, Hindu squat, Sumo squat, single leg squat, burpee, hyperextension, lunge, sit-ups, push-ups, and workouts with the medicine ball and physio-ball.

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Corey Beasley, owner of DNA Fitness. I just wanted to take a few minutes and run through some of the variables, some tips that are going to help you with your health and fitness or your wellness program. Number one, we’re going to start out with food. Food is absolutely number one most important key component to your health and well being, as well as performance if you are an athlete. Basic things, real up front with food. Just some key points are: you want to be eating a lot of the things that occur naturally in our environment. For example, if God made it eat it. You’re going to stick to lot of things like organic meats, chicken, beef, fish; different things like that as your protein sources. Obviously, fruits and vegetables are organics better so you avoid all the pesticides. Anything with the whole grains and different things like that are perfect with your oils and fats. Obviously, raw unsalted nuts are phenomenal. Olive oil, flaxseed oil, and you want to be cooking with solely just extra virgin and coconut oil. I can get into all the depth of that, but it’ll just take too long. With exercise, you just want to be keeping it into seven basic movements. Your body, you squat; you lunge; you push; you pull; you bend; you twist; you gait, or you walk. If you can incorporate all those movements in the most of your workouts, you’re going to be strong head to toe. Number three is supplementation. Basically, with the supplementation, you want just be sticking to the basics. Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fish oils, or omega-3. You just want to be basically giving your body the fundamentals, the basics that it needs to allow your body to perform, and do the functions that it’s good at. Your body is a phenomenal machine as long as it has the precursors, or the things that it needs to perform. Those are just the basics, you want to make sure that the vitamins are natural organic compounds; no synthetic added stuff or weird stuff that’s going to play with your hormones. Last but not least is lifestyle. This includes stress, environmental factors, all that type of stuff. All I really say with lifestyle is make sure you have a good balance between the work and play. Take sometime for your spiritual life; allow yourself to think. Take sometime where you can laugh; so that you can think; so can play; so you can say some down time. A lot of people have too much going on, too much time at work, and they’re just stressed out beyond belief, and that does absolutely terrible things to your body. If you can get all those factors in order, obviously, you might need a coach to help you through some of that stuff, I highly recommended it. You get all four those of components in order you’re going to be healthy; your energy is going to be high; you’re going to look better, feel better, and perform better. "