Fitness Friday: Workouts for Painters. Fitness From Home!

this christy idaho painter here on mainlife tv today is fitness friday and i'm going to start a new series here showing you what i do working out in the gym i've got you know a bunch of requests people want to see my fitness routine and i think it's time to show you what i do now i've been a fitness back all my life and um i work out i here's my gym i also do crossfit i go to the crossfit at a gym and then i'm an avid cyclist so i ride mountain bikes and road bikes and i'm gonna try to give you some all-around fitness tips and tricks and then give you some of my workout routines that i do to stay fit now i think it's extremely important as a painter to be fit you know i stay fit because i want to be a good example to my family um friends and family and then i just want to be healthy all around and being fit as a pain or you can work longer you're going to have less fatigue at the end of the day less likely to get injured you're going to be able to work faster there's a whole lot of benefits to working out being fit and looking fit as a painter when you go meet new and prospective clients so today's workout i'm going to be giving you a fitness friday be stronger work longer paint by fitness [Music] all right today's workout is gonna be three exercises i'm gonna be doing kind of a crossfit style workout but this workout will work your whole entire body now it is important to work out and uh some of you may ask why do i need to work out what are you climbing ladders every day so you'll be using your legs quads your glutes your hamstrings climbing up and down those waters so you need strength and endurance so you can do that day in and day out and have a long career painting you're also going to be cutting in lines you're going to be rolling walls day in and day out so you need to work your upper bodies and shoulders our first exercise we're going to be doing today is thrusters this is not an easy uh exercise to do it's tough to do but i'm going to show you what a thruster looks like in today's workout we're going to do three exercises in a row i'm going to do 10 reps of each exercise and then after i complete those three exercises i'm going to rest one minute and doing them again i'm going to do three sets 10 reps of each exercise so these are really simple workouts that you can do in a gym and you don't have to be a fitness buff a fitness fanatic like me but these are great uh overall body exercises that will make you a better painter so the first exercise is a thruster this barbell will typically be on the ground i have a luxury of having blocks to have it up on but i'm just going to take my weight i'm going to power clean my weight up get it in a position right here and a thruster movement is i'm going to squat down squat back up and press it overhead that's a thruster that's one wrap so down up two down up three down up four that is a thruster that's gonna work your quads it's gonna work your glutes your hamstrings your shoulders your chest your traps everything great exercise to do i'm going to do 10 reps of that then i'm going to go right to what we call a devil's press i'm going to show you what a devil's press looks like right now so here's the devil's press the devil's press is going to be using dumbbells and you're going to start with the dumbbells on the floor and this movement like a thruster is going to be a old whole body workout it's going to be getting down and doing a push-up on the dumbbells getting up and then pressing those dumbbells overhead and the first time ever seen this movement i was like oh my gosh uh i'm using 50 pound dumbbells uh you're probably not going to start with that kind of weight i started off originally um and crossfit way lighter than that but now i use 50 pound dumbbells so here we go the thrusters are down on the ground i like them about um you're starting off the width of what i would do a push-up ons i'm gonna squat down do a push-up on the dumbbells then i'm gonna come back up take the dumbbells swing them overhead and press and right back down and the whole swinging movement i like to get them get between my legs because you're using momentum to swing and press overhead when i set them back down i like to set them right back down in the width doing a push-up and then you go right back into on your devil's press so it's a consecutive movement i'm going to start off push and there is three devil's presses now we're going to move on to the next exercise which is wall balls and if you don't have a wall ball this is for a lot of gyms nowadays have um crossfit equipment most gyms have wall balls where you can do a wall ball and you can toss it up i have the convenience having a target but you just you can have a wall i'm going to show you the wall balls all right on to the third exercise i'm going to be doing wall balls and a wall ball if you've never heard of ball balls seen a ball ball here's a wall ball this is a 20 pound wall ball this is what we'd be using if we're doing um an rx workout it cross fits so i've got a 20 pound wall ball and i have a regulation target right there uh the rx target is the top target i would be just throwing the ball up at the target hitting the target catching it coming down into a squat and throwing it back up just like your thruster just like your devil's breast shoulder workout upper body workout leg quad glute hamstring and all these exercises work your core which is your abdominal midsection but after this we're going to be doing a core workout so i'm going to give you two exercises for your abs to do after this workout so the wall it's there's my target right here here's my wall ball very simple once again crossfit i started out with a lot lighter wall or wall wall that i actually use now and all of the disadvantages to those targets regulation targets for us shorter people we have a longer distance to throw the ball um but that's the way i was born and i like being short so that's cool i'll deal with it here's my target i'm going to start off with my ball in a position like this and i like to be probably about three feet from my on target so we stand back squat bow that's a wall ball toss right there so i'm going to do 10 of those and then i'm going to rest a minute and then i'm going to do my routine again so we're going to do 10 10 10 give ourselves a rest of a minute 10 10 10 but your third one you're going to be pretty exhausted now if a rest of a minute is not enough for you you can modify the workout and crossfit we call it scale you can modify it you can take two minutes if your cardiovascular you know isn't up you know to doing an rx workout and as prescribed so um one minute in between so starting off with my thruster so i'm going to do my 10 thrusters and there is no rest in between um each exercise so i'm going to do 10 thrusters go right to my 10 devil's presses and you're going to be huffing and puffing after that then you're going to go to 10 wall balls and then you get your minute rest here we go we're going to see if we can do this so work out right along with me here we go 10 thrusters [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] look at the clock rest a minute we're gonna do it all over here all right now we got our first workout done our first fitness friday workout now some of you may not have a barbell you may not have dumbbells you may not have you know a gym like i have but you know we all have as painters pink hands at some point in time now the thruster the first movement i did you can do a thruster by holding paint hands press overhead come down that's why i press up your head here's a thruster with paint cans and you know some paint cans are heavier than other paint cans you're strong enough use five gallon paint can so you can do a thruster with a paint can you can do a devil's press with a paint can also and here's a devil's press on the pink hand i can have them on the ground i can squat down and do a push-up press overhead [Music] there's a devil's press with a paint can now we don't want to be tossing a paint can in the air because we all know you know what can happen if you miss so i would substitute doing squats with the paint cans to um with side laterals so i'm going to squat right so hover over my sides squat come up do a side lateral squat come up do a side lateral squat side lateral so there's three exercises with pain cans that you can do once you're done with that three rounds 10 reps each we're going to move on to abnormal award all right on to our core workout now you know it's very important doing your core work because you're up and down ladders climbing carrying things in and out of your vans vehicles and you know just takes a strong core to do all that stuff if you want to have a long career painting and an injury-free career also and uh then once again you know i like to you know set a great example be healthy and fit for my family i also just feel um take pride in myself and how i look and so you know i just want to look good be fit and healthy so this is all part of it doing core um and this is the not fun part but here we go uh russian twist we're gonna do 50 russian twists and a russian twist i like to have a pad you know underneath me because as you're twisting if you're on a hard matting like this um i've actually rubbed my tailbone raw and it hurts so um you can use a pad if you need to but a russian twist is you're just going to be up near legs in the air and you're just going to twist from side to side and touch the mat now what you don't want to do is just sit here looking like this and just reaching over you actually want to twist your core and touch the mat twist so each touch is one all right one two three four five six just like that that is a russian twist and it's interesting because it doesn't look that difficult but it is really difficult now here's a russian twist if you get into using weight so you're gonna touch the ball each side one two three just like that that added weight is gonna make you stronger give you a stronger core so uh first exercise is gonna be 50 russian twist and you try to do them consecutively if you can't break them up into sets of ten but here we go we'll do a russian twist [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right so if you're strong enough to do these with um you know added weight and you don't have a wall ball once again our paint can conserve is our resistance and we can do 50 russian twists with a paint can now i'm going to turn over and do what we call a plank i'm going to get right into a plank position right here and now i'm going to hold my plank for three minutes and you want to just start off you might not be able to hold the plank for three minutes but if you've gotta go back down get back up and then begin counting your time again do a three minute plank now i've built myself up to doing a lot longer of a plank with a plank is a great core exercise these two things you can do anywhere you can do them in your hotel room you can do it at home you can do it at the gym but a plank is going to work your whole core so you're gonna be in this position just like this hold your core tight and now i'm gonna sit here in this position for as long as i can and i'm gonna hold your goal would be three minutes my goal is going to be longer than that because i do playing for more than five minutes i don't want to bore you with you watching me do my plank but this is exactly what it looks like my core is extremely tight i got my abs tight my glutes everything is tight my midsection is tight holding myself strong in this position and that's what a plank looks like you can see i'm a hot sweaty mask it's simple but it's difficult it's going to get you fit this is workout number one fitness friday and gives you a glimpse into seeing what i do to stay unhealthy and fit if you got any questions or comments about my workout routine about this routine just leave it in the comments section 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