Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

Just imagine you're building the perfect summer body, you're doing the perfect workouts,

and you're perfectly primed to look fantastic in a swimsuit by the time

the weather heats up. And then you injure your back or your knee or your shoulder and

suddenly your workout routine gets all messed up. Suddenly getting a summer body becomes much more of an

annoying chore. Or maybe you plan on summer sports like beach volleyball or learning how to wakeboard

or surf, but you're a bit nervous about how your body might actually hold up during these activities.

So in today's episode, you're going to learn how to bulletproof your body for the summer

and make sure you don't get injured getting your summer body. Now, even though everyone has their own personal weak

links when it comes to muscles, joints, or ligaments that tend to be prone to injury, there are

certainly common trouble spots for nearly any active individual. Many of these trouble spots

tend to include the small supportive muscles that are notoriously neglected during our large motor

movements that we do in performing summer body workouts or even summer activities like water skiing

or volleyball or surfing or throwing a football on the beach. These supportive areas include

your shoulders rotator cuff, your outer butts, gluteous medias, the small scapula muscles

along the shoulder blades, and the abdominal hip and low back region, or core. So how can you

address these notoriously weak areas and ensure that you bulletproof your summer body?

Well, in this episode, you're going to get two routines,

one longer, more comprehensive workout that you can do in a traditional gym environment,

and another shorter workout conducive to quickly performing at your home or your office.

And you can view any of the exercises that I described today over at YouTube.com

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