Workouts requiring the balance of seemingly uncontrollable weights can lead to massive results. In the same realm of kettlebell training, sandbag training can yield huge benefits in functional strength, fat loss, and conditioning because of the additional effort required to balance.

What would be more intense, trying to lift a perfectly balanced bar over your head, or a shifting mass of weight? Controlling and moving a sandbag works out your core and increases workout intensity because of unrelenting motion of the object you're trying to move.

Need a demanding workout? Try an overhead press using a sandbag. Not only does the shifting weight require persistent balancing using a variety of muscles, your grip is also getting an extreme workout. With sandbags, you can't really get a good grip anywhere, so to keep it from falling to the ground, you need to work your hands and forearms even harder to hold it in the air.

Same as with the kettlebell, using the sandbags in circuit-style training is ideal for total body strength as well as shedding pounds of fat in a hurry. You also don't need a ton of space or any equipment besides the sandbag, and well, sand. Simple enough.

Anyone involved in full-contact sports could benefit from the grip building affects of sandbag training. From wrestling to a variety of martial arts, the ability to grab and hold onto someone is vital to winning. People in law enforcement or the military could also benefit from this grip-strengthening effect.

You could build your own sandbag using a hefty bag, sand, and duct tape. If you're really going to get into it though, you might want to look for something created for sandbag training, like the products provided by Innovative Fitness Solutions. Their can put up with anything you can dish out.

With the Ultimate Sandbag, you get the versatility to train at home or anywhere you want, the variability to use new training protocols so the results you're looking for don't stagnate, and overall ability to train for power and strength as well as conditioning and fat loss. Working with sandbags has given me a great tool to add to my arsenal in increasing my strength and conditioning while developing a solid, aesthetically pleasing physique. Whoever said you have to do cardio 45 minutes a day to bun fat never tried sandbags.

Ultimately, life is about variety, but there is a fine line between too much and not enough. Too much and you risk never becoming fully proficient in a particular skill. Not enough and you run the risk of overtraining injuries as well as boredom. Sandbags offer a wide array of exercises and workouts while keeping you on track with your goals of a strong and conditioned individual. If you are going to give sandbags a try I am convinced that the Ultimate Sandbag is the best out there and will definitely not disappoint.