Stand near a wall. Lean out with arms straight, hands on the wall.
Gradually work your feet backward until you can feel the tendons stretching and straining in the back of your leg and ankle.
Keep your feet flat on the floor. Stretch the tendons slightly more by bending your arms alittle and leaning farther forward. Hold this stretching for 20 seconds. Then relax. Read the rest of this entry »
Lie on your back, arms extended, knees drawn up to chest.
Keep knees together and swing them to the right until knee touches the floor.
Return to start position, pause. Read the rest of this entry »
These are the obliques both internal and external, the transverse muscles, and the frontal muscles.
To start we have a group of eight stomach flattening exercises for you. As with any new physical activity, you should start this program slowly. I recommend that you begin with four reps of each exercise.
Work through all eight of the exercises this way, remembering to strain the muscles involved at their maximum during the exercise for greatest benefit. Read the rest of this entry »
Sit on the floor and bend your knees up to a 45 degree angle and your hands behind your head.
Lower slowly your torso backwards to a 45 degree angle. You’ll feel your muscles begin to pull.
Hold for four seconds, then slowly return to start position.
Repeat the exercise for the required reps. Read the rest of this entry »
All of these ten exercises are good workouts for your stomach flattening program. It’s just that you can’t do eighteen exercises every day and hope to do much of anything else.
When you substitute one exercise for another, circle that exercise’s number on your workout chart. You may need to reduce the reps on a new exercise and you may not. If you’re at the eight rep step and you get a new exercise, you may want to drop it back to four and work it up to your level on the others. Read the rest of this entry »
Here are a few “off line” exercises that you can do. Some of them you can do sitting at a computer or desk. Some you can do while you’re walking down the hall or in your office with the door closed.
Again these exercises are aimed at your stomach muscles, and at trimming your waistline Read the rest of this entry »
Now, you have a good start on your exercise program. You’re faithfully working those selected exercises three to five times a week. You’re starting to feel the muscles pull in and tighten.
Great!
We move ahead to the Second Step in the program, burning off some of that ugly fat. As we talked about before, the abdominal muscle exercises are not designed to burn off excess fat. They are to tone and strengthen the stomach muscles so you can have that hard, flat belly when the excess fat is gone. Read the rest of this entry »
Which is the best of the aerobic exercises? Just how many calories does walking burn, compared to a man running a six minute mile for the same time frame? These estimates are worked out on the basis of a person weighing 150 pounds. For each fifteen pounds more than this, add 10% to the calorie burning figure. For each 15 pounds less than this, take off 10%. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s simple, inexpensive, can be done anytime, anywhere, and it can be done alone or with somebody. No waiting for a tee time, no trying to get a tennis court, no looking for a hoop to use for your round ball practice, and no trouble with not getting the team together to practice. Walking is not a team sport. Hooray!
How’s your heart? Over the past 30 years, heart attacks have tapered off a little. This is due to many factors, including fewer smokers and more exercise. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes, check the chart above. Walking is a great way to get in your aerobic workout for the day. The great thing about walking for your aerobics is that you can do it by yourself, you can go anytime of day or night that you want to, you can vary the time of day from day to day, you can go faster or slower as you wish. You can also go farther or shorter, and you can pick out the route. Nothing to say you can’t walk on the beach in the summertime and enjoy the sights and sounds of the surf and sand and those marvelous new bikini swim suits. Read the rest of this entry »
