London Personal Trainer Creates Unique Exercise

As you probably know already, full-body exercises are essential for your fat loss efforts. You may have tried squat, deadlift and clean & press. Burpee also is a great exercise for conditioning and to bring up your heart rate enhancing the post-exercise "afterburn" effect. Here is an exercise I created to combine these benefits and challenge your body while also increasing functional movement and speed.

With Barbell Burpee Curl you can hit your chest, biceps, legs and core muscles all at the same time. Also your triceps and lower back get a fair amount of work. It's a great exercise to do when finishing a chest & biceps day, or it can be performed on a full-body workout day. As a London personal trainer I've been incorporating it in my clients' programmes with great success. Sometimes a bit more variety and hitting your muscles from a different angle while keeping the intensity high is just what your body needs to break through a plateau and start progressing again.

If you are struggling to do a full push-up, that's ok. Just do the same thing without a push-up or do a partial one. Just make sure you angle your wrists out, hold a strong grip, brace your core muscles and keep your hips up. Also push your elbows back when doing the barbell curl, to effectively target your biceps. Let me know how it goes!!