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Circuit Weight Training Tips

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Summary: Circuit weight training involves a lower weight and more reps in each workout, as well as more exercises since the lower weight allows for more use of the muscles. Understand better this type of workout with these tips from an experienced personal trainer in this free video on fitness and exercises.

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Aaron Hill is a professional fitness and health instructor at Fitness for Life in Wilmington, N.C.read more

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"Hi this is Aaron Hale at Fitness for Life here in Wilmington, North Carolina here to talk to you a little bit today about circuit weight training. Circuit weight training is a style and program of training in which we have a set program of anywhere between 6 to 12 very basic movements with very important compound movements like the bench press, squat, fly, lunge. These are all very basic movements but also very important movements and that is the reason why they still exist today in just about every sense of weight training and work out programming. With circuit weight training again we are going to focus on approximately 6 to 12 major movements and we are going to run that training work out. We will have approximately 3 to 4 sets with which we stick to a repetition range, could vary depending on the weight but typically it is anywhere between 8 to 12 repetitions per set so we draw out or outline a work out plan for the day, select our 6 to 12 moves, design a program where we are fitting in at least 3 sets per movement and try to keep it in that 8 to 12 rep range and it is very strict movement with very little rest in between movements. We will go from 1 movement with a small rest period of about 30 to 45 seconds then move on to our next movement. It is very high intensity, very anaerobic sort of training method and has proven very beneficial to some people. Some people do it and it is great for endurance. Some people do it to help them maintain a specific physical balance in all seasons when people aren't training for their particular sport. So again it is a very strict yet very beneficial system of working out and of training and it has become very popular this day and time with places like Cross Fit and also some of the boot camps have also incorporated this system of training and it is very beneficial and that is circuit weight training."

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