Photo here of Houston in home personal trainer Melissa who is visiting Southern California and instead of running bleachers,  is hiking up the inclines near the coast as an alternative to her usual stair climbing workout. Running the bleachers might bring back visions of Rocky Balboa, however the avid athlete will realize that the workout is intensive, cardiovascular and tones and sculpts the legs and calves and butt for men AND women. Sexy Personal Trainer Melissa of Houston, Texas runs bleachers twice a week and sometimes even more to push herself outside of the gym and her weight training workouts.vThe photo below was just taken July 2008 after she did two hours of beach jogging and lunges on the beautiful beaches of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

In an article about bleacher workouts  titled "Stairway to hell" by Chris Shugart  on the web site "testosterone nation" he compares bleacher workouts to walking and does not "sugar coat" it when he says "But let's cut through the feel-good bullshit here: you aren't going to look great naked or perform like a beast just walking. It's a method of locomotion, not "exercise." At best, it will keep you in minimally good health, assuming your diet isn't too terrible. If your diet is crap, then walking will merely slow down your physical demise.""After 8 minutes of bleachers, my heart is pounding, my legs are pumped with blood, I'm sweating, and my glutes and calves are usually sore the next day. I don't think even the most out-of-shape housewives walking the track, sipping Diet Coke and eating Power Bars, really "feel" much from their walking workout"
Melissa laughed when she read this because she knows what Chris is saying. and she agrees that walking does not compare to running up and down the bleachers. The bleachers Personal Trainer Melissa runs are seventy two steps high and she runs up them twenty six times, walks down with no resting between sets other than the walk down.


This is no out-of-shape- workout. This bleacher workout makes calves cut and tightens quads and glutes as can be seen in the above photo taken December, 2007. This workout takes about an hour. To incorporate upper body as well, Top personal trainer Melissa alternates doing push ups and dips at the bottom of the bleachers between the runs and this adds another twenty minutes to the workout. The high schools in the area leave the gates open for residents to use them during non school hours and many individuals are there at all times of the early morning and evening, running, doing football workouts or night frisbee golf. Because it is fairly dark it is advisable to take a training buddy along for safety however there is also security patrolling the site. One final benefit is that You get to look at some amazing sunsets such as this one, when you workout in the early evening.