Ultimate Sandbag Training For Better Cardio

If I ask people, “how do you measure if someone is in shape?” Most of the answers are going to revolve around “conditioning”, “endurance”, or the infamous, “cardio” concept. Interesting that most people still probably default to these ideas when it comes to fitness in real life.

Yet, most fail to realize that the debate isn’t strength or endurance, but rather in what most people THINK are these things are really what we know to be “power-endurance”. Something DVRT Ultimate Sandbag Training focuses upon quite a bit!

This isn’t something that is just for athletes or that I go into a story of what I did “back in the day”. I am not crazy, it has been almost 20 years since I played competitive athletics. I am not trying to relive any old glory, but espouse some important lessons. One of the things I enter every workout with is a specific goal. I never go, “oh let’s just do this till I am tired”.

We still believe fatigue means effective, while fatigue definitely does surprise people in our DVRT Ultimate Sandbag Training programs, it isn’t the overriding goal. The reason power-endurance is so important is that we want to have the ability to repeat great levels of strength. 99% of the time in life and sport we don’t just have a brief singular effort that defines our success or not. Those cases we can probably count on one hand!

However, if you want results, getting functional fitness that means something in DVRT Ultimate Sandbag Training is going to take some real work!

“Conditioning” Doesn’t Mean Light Loads!

I see it all the time on social media, people doing their “conditioning” or “cardio” and going with really light weights. Honestly, I think that people sometimes are just looking for an excuse not to lift what they should. This isn’t my attempt to be a tough guy or anything like that (trust me, it has been a LONG time that I would go down the tough guy road!). Rather, they aren’t doing the work they think, or getting the results they want.

 That also means you are probably going to have to rest! As we talked in our last post about HIIT (you can read HERE) Rest is NOT the enemy, in fact, it is what is going to get you the major changes we talk about in HIIT workouts. When you do NOT rest is when you make the workouts almost aerobic based and lose SO MUCH of the effectiveness.

Why don’t MOST people want to do legit HIIT workouts? Because it is WORK!!!! However, like most good things, you need to actually earn the results that you want to achieve. We hope that DVRT Ultimate Sandbag Training can inspire you to challenge yourself, but do so in a way that is fun, progressive, and empowering. So, that you can do workouts like this!