Work on your upper body muscles using the Bench Dip exercises from my new book, Choose More, Lose More for Life
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Give your body a workout with this Squat Jacks exercise from my new book, Choose More, Lose More for Life
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Work on your core muscles using these Swing-Ups exercises from my new book, Choose More, Lose More for Life
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Enjoy this excercise from my new book, Choose More, Lose More for Life
Air Squats
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July 20, 2012
You can watch Chris Powell on “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition” Sundays at 9 pm on ABC. Here are Chris Powell’s “Sexy Six Summer Slim Down” exercises:
Burpee
We start with this one because it truly works out every muscle in your body.
Start in a standing position. Put your hands on the ground. Kick your feet back in to a push up position. Do a push up, jump your feet forward and jump up and clap.
* Works out every muscle in your body!
Mountain climber
Start in a push up position. Raise your knee up to your chest so it looks like you are climbing. In one quick movement, jump your feet and switch feet. It’s an isometric hold.
* Works out your core, legs and gives a big cardiovascular response.
***** Starting from here all exercises will use the one gallon jugs. Using jugs at home is a great way to get eight pounds of weight easily for a work out without having to buy weights. Just take a jug and fill them with water. And if you want, go to the hardware store and get silicone gel so that you can properly seal the jugs.
Thrusters (use a dining room chair)
Start in a standing position holding the jugs resting on your shoulders. Sit down in the chair and then stand up and put your arms up with the jugs overhead.
* Works out your butt, thighs, and your core for midline stability.
Back lunge with twist
Start in standing position with feet together and one jug at your chest. Extend the jug out in front of you and then step back with one leg about 3 feet and lower the leg to the ground. Holding jug in front, rotate the side 90 degrees.
* Works your butt and thighs and also your core when rotating.
Step up with curl (use a small step stool)
For this you can use any little stool you have in your house.
From the floor, step up on the stool and once in a standing position, do a bicep curl.
* Works your butt, thighs and bicep.
Squat clean
This is a big explosive move. Start by holding the jugs down to your side. Gently dip down and as you jump, the jugs rise to your shoulders using your biceps.
* Works your butts, thighs, biceps and back.
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Chris Powell, the man who orchestrates each jaw-dropping weight transformation on “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition,” says his secret as a hard-charging training has less to do with exercising people’s bodies than exorcising their demons.
“There is a tie to some kind of emotional trauma, in the past, of people I’ve worked with, and that trauma is typically unaddressed,” he said.
Powell has helped 11 super-obese people lose more than a ton of weight on the show: 2,198 pounds, to be exact. But in addition to helping people shrink to half their size, Powell also has gotten them to open up about a whole range of psychological issues, including sexual abuse and alcoholism.
Although he admits he is “absolutely not” professionally qualified to advise on these issues, Powell said he approaches it like a friend would.
“I know what’s out of my scope of practice with some of these deep-rooted psychological issues,” he said. “That’s why we have therapists on board with us.”
Learning to love yourself as a cure for morbid obesity might sound like psycho-babble, but Powell, 34, said it works. The trainer is known for moving in with his clients to makeover their lives and to break their bad habits. Their weight loss is often so dramatic that they require skin-removal surgeries.
Given Powell’s rock-hard abs and intensity, you would never guess he was once a scrawny kid who failed to make the high school football team.
“I was so weak and vulnerable at that time that I just felt empowered and what gave it to me was fitness, iron, and I was hooked,” he said.
Powell became a trainer and even appeared on “Good Morning Arizona.” But after some bad business deals, he found himself living out of his car.
“I felt like a fraud, I felt like a total fraud,” he said. “I made poor business decisions. I was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. I was losing everything.”
That is, until he met Heidi, a recently divorced single mom of two. The couple are now married and raising three kids together.
“We really met at the deepest, darkest part in both of our lives and it gave us a wonderful foundation to open up and say, ‘Here’s who I am,” said Heidi Powell, who is also a trainer.
It was in that low moment that Chris Powell said he learned to overcome his fear of failure and also vowed that he would teach others how to be healthy. He even had the Roman numerals I, C, D, M, X, C and M tattooed onto his side. The last three are topped by horizontal lines, which means the base numbers should be multiplied by 1,000, so in Arabic numerals, they read 1, 100, 500, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000.
Powell said it symbolizes how many people have thanked him for making a positive change in their lives.
“I think we all have a desire to feel significant in the world,” he said. “It’s not about me doing nice things for other people. I get something out of this, and its fulfillment. This is the best addiction in the world.”
“Chris Powell, the man who orchestrates each jaw-dropping weight transformation on “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition,” says his secret as a hard-charging training has less to do with exercising people’s bodies than exorcising their demons.
“There is a tie to some kind of emotional trauma, in the past, of people I’ve worked with, and that trauma is typically unaddressed,” he said.
Powell has helped 11 super-obese people lose more than a ton of weight on the show: 2,198 pounds, to be exact. But in addition to helping people shrink to half their size, Powell also has gotten them to open up about a whole range of psychological issues,…”
Watch video and read complete article here.
Chris Powell has witnessed some amazing weight loss journeys.
Powell, the fitness trainer on ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition,” gets messages from many people who tell him about what motivated them to achieve their remarkable weight loss results.
Among the standout stories is that of Dana Atkins, a cancer survivor from Lafayette, La.
Atkins recalled her 130-pound weight loss success on “Good Morning America” today.
Read the complete story here complete with video and several workout tips!
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