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Home » IDEA Answers » What is the best exercise to do to build your strength, endurance, and to make your trouble spots go away?
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Question asked by Garrett Stangel 388 days ago

What is the best exercise to do to build your strength, endurance, and to make your trouble spots go away?

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Answered by Derek Concannon 387 days ago
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Hi Garrett,

My philosophy is to achieve the unrealistic and I believe you can cure your trouble spots like I have. My personal "trouble spot" was overall being too skinny. It was impossible for me to gain weight, as hard as that is to imagine! I decided to tweak my workout routine a little bit and have discovered amazing results. I increased my strength by %22.2. My Bench Press went from 135lb to 165lbs and increased total body weight by 10lbs (155lb - 165lb) in as little as 3 weeks! And my blood pressure was excellent.

I am always testing and studying new ways of working out with different combinations of exercises and varying techniques. I like to see what develops the best results in the shortest amount of time, of course in the safest possible manner. The below exercises are great regarding your question. I found that the exercises listed below were key supplements to my progress as well as other studies I have read about...These are just a few exercises to fix those bodily imbalances, improve strength, and increase endurance.

1. Full Turkish Get-up: An excellent exercise for core strength, stability, and improving total body balance.
2. Kettle-Bell Swing: A great exercise for improving full body strength and power in your legs and developing a better Posterior, which is key to your improving your posture.
3. Full Burpee: This is a great endurance exercise, burns calories, and helps to break through your physical limits.

As always, make sure to focus on excellent technique to prevent injury.

Good Luck!

Derek
NASM-CPT
Body Transformation Instructor
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Answered by LaRue Cook 388 days ago
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Hi Garret. What do you mean by "make your trouble spots go away?" Are you referring to places of excess body fat? Places of a noticeable strength or flexibility difference? Something else? There is no one exercise that does everything in my opinion. But, there are several combinations of exercise that would help someone both gain strength, and, for example reduce body fat or improve flexibility. A lot depends upon what you mean by trouble spots. Can you provide more details?

LaRue, CSCS
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larue.cook@lecfitness.com
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Answered by Susan D'Alonzo 388 days ago
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There is no way to "make your trouble spots to away!' I have been asked this question the MOST during my 32 years training.

Most people want to get rid of the areas they hate becasue they have been with them the longest and will be the very last area of the body to respond to exercise.

There is no Best: it all depends on your ablility, your goals, your fitness intelligence and fortitude.

My mantra is do some of everything.

There is not ONE exercise that will do EVERYTHING
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Answered by Harris Sophocleous 388 days ago
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Hi Garrett,

I agree with LaRue and Susan. Please be more specific if you can. There is no one exercise that works everything.

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Harris
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Answered by Andrew Halligan 388 days ago
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I agree with everyone that says there is not one magic exercise that will make everything fall into place.
I will have to say the three most effective exercises I can think of are the bodyweight squat, pullup or assisted pullup, and running/walking.
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Answered by Harris Sophocleous 387 days ago
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I need to add that there is one exercise which burns more calories per minute than any other, the Kettlebell snatch. It was proven by ACE, that it can burn up to 20 calories per minute.
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Answered by Marlan Eller 372 days ago
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I've got one for everyone... Let's see what you guys think of this...

Has anyone ever had experience with the Cybex 750AT Total Body Arc Trainer or a similar machine?

These are two links to the 770AT currently being offered by Cybex.. Keep in mind that the cybex website is made to market the equipment, so it has a slant.. just for everyone to get an overview of it and get a grasp on the mechanics involved, check out the links if you're unfamiliar with the equipment. I'll be talking about the 750AT, which is very similar to the new 770AT.

http://media.cybexintl.com/SummarySheets/770AT.pdf
http://www2.cybexintl.com/products/770AT/intro.aspx

We have one of these in the gym, along with about 5 other lower-end models. The 750AT is much smoother, much more customizable as far as resistance and programming are concerned, and it's also much more efficient at delivering a quality program and fairly accurate read-outs to the client from start to finish.

I'm not sure if you've ever been on one of these or something similar to it.. but these things will absolutley put you through your paces! In my opinion, with proper form on this particular machine (I say that because it's what I've worked with extensively), you can get a great combination of strength and endurance training.

Of course there is no miracle exercise that I'm aware of.

I so really like what Andrew had to say about a body squat. I think many people underestimate the power of squatting as far as how beneficial it can be to the body!

Garrett, Is this along the lines of what you were looking for?
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