10 min Stretching Workout

Hey guys, I hope you are all doing well! Today I want to show you my stretch routine. It helps to loosen up in the morning and before exercise. With just ten minutes it is easy to implement into your day, let’s go!

Hands to the floor:We start by standing up, keeping our legs straight, bend over the upper body and touching our toes. If you can’t reach your toes yet, it is not a big deal, you will get to it. The important thing is to keep your legs straight. If you want, you can stretch out your body a few times in between.

Walking Sun Salutation: Now we put our hands to the floor, walking forward with them, the legs stay where they are. Again, try to keep them as straight as possible. When we arrived in the yoga „downdog“ position (some sort of push up position, but with straightened arms and back), we do the „updog“: Pushing through, straighten our arms and back again, opening our chest, greeting the sun. Then we go back do the updog and walk back.

Groin and butt strech: We start on our knees and do a big step forwards with our left leg. Then we sit deep into it. You should feel the stretch now in your right groin, it’s very liberating. Remember, while doing this, to activate your abs to protect your lower back. When we are finished with one leg, we do the other.

Side leg stretch: We stay with the legs. So we stand up again, bend one leg and lean to the side, keeping one leg straight. Try to keep your upper body straight and activate your middle, that’s very important. When we are done, we do the other one.

Frog position: It looks like the tailor seat, but it is not. Instead of crossing our legs, we put our soles together, creating a pressure and therefore a strech in the groin.

Leg extension stretch: We stay seated, stretch our legs to the front and bend over. It is quite similar to the very first exercise, just now we are seated.

Harmstrings stretch: To make it even more intense and specific we concentrate now on one leg at a time. For that we angle one leg tight to the body, while stretching the other one, leaning over it in the process.

Core rotation stretch: Now it is getting a bit more complicated. When we start with the right side, the left leg is stretched out, while we pull the right one close to our chest, crossing it over the left leg. Now we rotate our upper body to the right side creating a pressure in pushing our left arm against the outside of our right leg. See? It’s easy! 😀

Neck stretch: We stay seated, legs stretched out, upper body straight. Now we lay our hands at the back of your head, pulling it down gently.

Neck stretch sides: The same we do with each side, using only one hand in the process.

Leg extension stretch: Now we stand up again (feeling better already?). While keeping our body straight we angle one leg to the back, grabbing the ankle and pulling it gently. Try to stay straight, it should stretch your upper leg muscles.

Back stretch: Okay, this one may seem a little odd. We sit again and start the motion of a backwards roll. But we don’t actually roll through it. Rather we keep laying on our upper back, our toes touching the floor above our head.

Harmstring Stretch Left: Now an easier exercise again. One leg forward, the other one back, leaning over the stretched front leg.

Shoulder Rotation: This one is very good to loosen up the back. We rotate our shoulders forwards, then backwards, arms on the side.

Body rotation: To finish it up, we rotate our body to each side. Be careful here and only to what feels right to you. After that we are done!

That’s a great way to start the day! I hope you liked this little different approach to a routine and check out all my other workouts, tutorials and vlogs on my YouTube Channel @fabianxarnold.

See you soon, guys, take care!

10 min – Military Workout for at home

Hey guys, another workout is coming your way! This time I wanted to show you a „military workout“ routine. It combines cardio with strength exercises, and it definitely will be challenging, but it also will be worth it at the end. You can add it to your workout routine as a high intense exercise to kill your fat!

Every exercise will be repeated several times within the course of the routine, but obviously I will only explain it once. 😀

Jumping Jacks: Start with high frequency jumping jacks, to get the heart going.

Burpees: Right after that go over to burpees. Jump down to a push up position, do a push up, get up, do a high jump and start over. Try to really get those movements into one flow. It is hard at first, but you will get used to it!

High Knees: To keep the intensity, switch to High knees. Remember: No pause between the exercises!

Mountain climbers: Now this is an exercise most people hate, but I love it! It really gets exhausting after a little while. Get into a push up position. But don’t do a push up – rather pull your knees alternately to your chest, as if you were running.

Punches: Throw some punches! But remember to move your feet. A boxer never stands still. Also lay your whole body into the punch.

Twist Jumps: Jump up and down and twist your hips. It sounds like a dance move and it kinda looks like it as well. 😀

Kick Throughs: They are pretty similar to mountain climbers. The difference is that you don’t pull your knees up to the chest, but kick your legs below your body through to the other side. Your right leg to the left and your left leg to the right.

Push Ups: Those almost feel like a relieve after those burpees, right?

Push Up Hold: Now hold yourself down in that position, arms tight to the body. It burns!

Plank Hold: Keep holding! Your body has to be a straight line. 

Squats Jumps: Now again something for your legs. They work just like normal squats, but when going up, you jump! Try to get a smooth movement here, similar to the burpees.

Side Plank on each side: Try to keep your body straight, it has to be one line, tense your whole body.

Jack Knife: Lay on the ground and stretch your body out. Now, while keeping your arms and legs straight, get them together in the middle.

Squat hold: Just like squats, but hold! Try to go deep.

Squat Twists: This is a mixture out of Jump Twists and Squat Jumps. Do the squat jump first, then switch to the right by pulling your right leg back and your left leg to the front, almost as in a deep lunge position in yoga. Then come back to the middle and after that to the left.

Plank up and downs: You thought plank was hard? Try going from a plank position to a push up position and back.

Walk up and down: Unleash the animal inside of you! Walk on your hands and feet up and down. Try to keep your body tense.

Lunge kicks: Last exercise! Do a deep lunge and kick out of it with your back leg!

And that’s it! Feeling exhausted? Good! With each time you will get used to it more and more, it will show. 😊

I hope you can make this workout part of your routine. For more workouts like this, hair style tutorials and vlogs visit my YouTube Channel @fabianxarnold. Take care and see you there!

Sixpack for Summer | perfect ABS Workout | 10 min

Hey guys!

As some of you have seen I uploaded a NEW WORKOUT Video including 10 min of the best SIXPACK-EXERCICES. Everyone of us wants to be in shape for summer so go for it and train with me!

10 min Sixpack Workout for at home without any equipment. Additional to my other workout videos I added this perfect abs workout to train your Sixpack Muscles without any breaks.

Do this workout in combination with my other Sixpack Workout on my Youtube Channel to switch up your training!

If you have any questions, feel free to email me. I will upload more YouTube videos in the near future, so it makes sense to subscribe to my YouTube account and for daily news follow my Instagram Account.

Down here you will find the Link for the ultimative 10min SIXPACK WORKOUT! HAVE FUN!!!

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Berlin 2019 – Highlights, Impressions, Modeling

I know Fashion Week Berlin 2019 was more than a couple month ago. It was in July 2019. Nevertheless, I would like to share my impressions with you. It was a crazy week and I met a lot of people. Who I met and on which parties I was, you will get to know in this blog post.

Impressions of the city of Berlin

As most of you know, Berlin is the capital and is the largest city in Germany with 5 million inhabitants.

I think Berlin is a very interesting city, because you are not limited in your options. You can achieve everything. There are many freethinkers and alternative ways of thinking are always tolerated.

There are very cool clubs to party, places to chill with friends and just hang out. Berlin compared to other German cities is a snappy city.

Why should I go to Fashion Week?

Anyone who is from the fashion industry, working for a brand, as a photographer, as a model or as a stylist. It makes sense to go to the fashion week because there can be great new people to connect with. As a social media creator you can connect with brands and work out deals. You can also get to know new social media creator. For Brands it makes sense to represent your own brand in order to increase it. So basically Fashion Week is great for networking. A little tip: always take a business card with you.

As a model at Fashion Week in Berlin

This year I was booked as a model for the finale of Berlin Fashion Week in the “Haubentaucher”. It was a lot of fun to run in this great location as a model on the catwalk. I was just back from Los Angeles for a week and really enjoyed it.

Fashion Week is great to enlarge the image as a model. Money-technically, Fashion Week is not really worth it as a model.

How do I get invited to a fashion week?

If you have a certain size or reputation in the fashion scene, you will usually be contacted via email from PR agencies. Maybe your management will also take care of inviting you to red carpet events and shows.

If you are at the beginning of your career, it makes sense to email PR agencies and ask for invitations for the Fashion Week. You can also contact large brands, which have their own shows.

There is also the possibility to get appointments for new shows through contacts you made just now on some shows. Not all shows are at one location. Sometimes  you get confused where the next show is. And only by asking, you can get a rough overview of the whole event schedule.

Impressions of Fashion Week in Berlin 2019

The Fashion Week in Berlin is always a lot of fun, because I meet a lot of people that I have not seen for a long time. So it’s like a class reunion.

Especially among social media craters and models, there are connections and it’s just a lot of fun to go out and celebrate. For me Fashion Week in Berlin is less to increase my reputation. It’s more to meet all people again. For example, I met Carlos or Luca again.

I’ve been to a lot of events this year, including the Hugo Boss party, the About You show, the Michalski show, Otto, Guido Maria Kretzschmar, the Bunte Magazin party, the Tigha party and many more.

It’s actually like every year so I do not want to talk a lot about the individual events.

Conclusion

That was just a small review of the Fashion Week in Berlin 2019 and some general information. For the next Fashion Weeks, I will write detailed blog posts and also go into the individual events. For modeling-questions and questions about my person you can go and check out my Youtube Account with Q&As and also My Instagram account 🙂

If you have any questions, let me know in the comments.