Bags filled with water or sand can be great tools for building strength through unconventional training. Check out the following posts for the best workouts and exercises using weighted bags to help you achieve your goals.
Bruce Lee famously likened a well-rounded martial artist to water. “Water can flow or it can crash,” he said. “Be water, my friend.” If you want to build a stable, strong, and explosive body, the …
If you’re ready to expand your unconventional training methods beyond kettlebells and bodyweight exercises, the sandbag is a good place to start! Find out how much weight you should use, what features a good sandbag has, and if you should even start sandbag training in the first place.
Last time I checked an opponent doesn’t have a handle. His weight is not evenly dispersed and he sure as hell moves a lot when you try to hit or submit him. All the more …
Workout Summary Perform 60 seconds of A1 followed immediately by 60 seconds of A2, A3, A4 and A5. Once finished rest and repeat for a total of 5 rounds. A1: Sandbag Shouldering – 5 rounds …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day. Today’s workout is a sandbag workout consisting of 1 giant set performed for 5 rounds. This is #42 of a series of daily workouts …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day. Today’s workout is mixed implement workout using the steel mace, kettlebell, sandbag, steel club, and medicine ball. It consists of 1 giant circuit of mixed implement training …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day. It is a mixed implement workout using the sandbag, steel club, steel mace, kettlebell and your bodyweight. It consists of 4 separate supersets for 5 rounds each. This is …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day for Monday, December 07, 2015. It is a sandbag and kettlebell workout consisting of 4 separate supersets of mixed implement training. This is #30 of a series of daily …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day for Wednesday, December 02, 2015. It is a sandbag and kettlebell workout consisting of 7 – 30 second rounds of mixed implement training. This is #27 of a series of …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day for Thursday, November 27, 2015. It is a sandbag workout consisting of a every minute on the minute scheme of sandbag training. This is #24 of a series …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day for Wednesday, November 25, 2015. It is a steel mace, sandbag, medicine ball, steel club & bodyweight workout consisting of 5 – 1 minute rounds of …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day for Friday, November 20, 2015. It is a bodyweight, sandbag, kettlebell, steel club, steel mace, medicine ball, and battle ropes workout consisting of 5 – 30 rounds …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day for Monday November 16, 2015. It is a sandbag workout consisting of 300 total reps of sandbag training. This is #16 of a series of daily workouts, showing …
Balance Exercises? I know, you are probably picturing some anorexic contortionist kid who works for Cirque du Sole` jumping and balancing on exercise balls. Before you send this article to the trash, hear me out. I …
Staggered Stance Bag Slinger Steel Mace Exercise Description To perform the Staggered Stance Bag Slinger Steel Mace Exercise begin by standing in a staggered stance, hinge into a side load ready position with the mace …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day for Monday November 02, 2015. It is a mixed implement workout consisting of 20 minutes of steel clubs, sandbags, medicine balls and kettlebell workouts. This is …
Workout Details This is the Onnit Academy Workout of the Day for Wednesday October 28, 2015. It is a sandbag workout consisting of 20 rounds of sandbag training using a minute on the minute scheme. This is #3 …
When I started my home gym I wasn’t interested in lugging around heavy cardio equipment or cable machines. I wanted the most effective training tools my money could buy. There are certain training tools that will …
The Sandbag Atlas Lift will teach you how to absorb weight throughout your entire body and release it in an explosive, full body motion. This movement mimics an Atlas Stone Platform Lift, but is much more approachable for most …
Sandbag Shouldering is an essential exercise in sandbag training. Not only does it work your body, is also serves as a safe and effective way to get the sandbag to your shoulder for other exercises …
The skill of the week at the Onnit Academy Gym is the Sandbag Shouldering exercise. In this specific case, Sandbag Shouldering will teach you how to build explosive power using the hips. Sandbag Shouldering is a relatively simple exercise. You lift the sandbag …
Using Olympic Weightlifting with the barbell is an extremely masterful skill….it is an olympic sport after all. But, using the barbell for olympic lifts is not the only way to build explosiveness. It takes months …
The farmers walk is the simplest exercise you can do. Just pick up some heavy weights, walk as far as you can, and repeat. If they’re so simple, why aren’t you doing them? I’d argue …
The holidays are over, and the relatives are gone. You probably have your sights set on 2015 and the new you. Your resolutions are in place and you have a fancy new gym membership to …
The hinge is one of the Essential movements required for all sports and activities. In my previous article “4 Essential Bodyweight Movements Everyone Should Master,” I discussed the importance of the hinge in strengthening the …
Summary This is a demonstration of the Get Up Sandbag Exercise.
Summary The Sandbag Pinch Grip Upright Row helps develop grip strength as well as scapular stability. The goal of the drill is to lift the elbows high as the shoulders stay down and back. Exercise …
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access any information on our website. We incorporate physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for the encryption of all financial transactions through the website. We use industry-standard, 256bit SSL encryption to protect your personal information online, and we also take several steps to protect your personal information in our facilities. For example, when you visit the website, you access servers that are kept in a secure physical environment, behind a locked cage and a hardware firewall. After a transaction, your credit card information is not stored on our servers.
