Exercise Guide

 

Important

If you feel pain, dizziness or shortness of breath at any time during any of the exercises or use of other equipment at this website, you should STOP exercising & consult your physician.

Alert gym staff if assistance is needed.

 

Body Bag

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Benefits:

  • A Warm-up Activity
  • Cardiovascular Training
  • Upper Body Workout

 

Use of the Body Bag:

1. Check-out gloves to protect hands

  • Gloves are a protective barrier to prevent body fluids from being shared between users

2. Upper body warm-up occurs with punching the bag

  • Begin punching motion gradually to allow the body to adjust to movement
  • Intensity can be increased to an aerobic level with continuous and more rapid punching

3. Total body warm-up occurs with punching the bag and a "dancing movement" of the feet

  • Intensity can be increased to an aerobic level with continuous move ment and more rapid punching and dancing

4. Decrease activity level to cool-down the body to recovery level or move to another aerobic acitivity