[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Get your body looking trim and toned, and feel great in your swimsuit. There’s a whole lot of summer ahead to enjoy. Start this swimsuit season exercise program today; you might want to keep it going all year around.
At the core
Most of us look at our midsections, belly, and hips when we put on our swimsuits. Ab and core exercises help us tone and tighten for a leaner silhouette. Whatever core exercises you like to do–yoga, Pilates, or strength work–maximize the impact by building on these fundamentals:
- Move from your waist, keeping the hips still. Twist from the bottom rib and up.
- ‘Zip up’, as if you’re putting on your snug, shapely jeans. You’ll feel a tightening across the front of your abdomen between your hip bones.
- Exhale every breath fully and pull in your navel. Doing this helps strengthen your core and protect your lower back, too.
Get crunchy
Your first fun crunch is the Russian Twist. It does double duty on both abs and obliques.
- Sit in a v-shape, with your upper body held up at about a 45-degree angle, and your legs lifted with ankles crossed, knees bent, and shins parallel to the ground.
- Hold a medicine ball between both hands, and swivel with control to the left side, then the right, nearly touching the ball to the ground. Do 3 sets of 15 reps each, 3 to 4 times a week.
- Start with a 5-lb. medicine ball (or dumbbell), and increase the weight to a comfortable but challenging level.
Try another great exercise for the core: Advanced Leg Crunches.
- Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet on the floor, with a 3-lb. dumbbell between your feet. Put your hands, palms down, beneath your sitting bones.
- Use mainly your lower abs to bring your knees in toward your chest while lifting your hips, head, and shoulders slightly. Return to the starting position.
Do 15–30 reps, 3 to 4 times a week.
- Start with a 3-lb. weight and increase as needed.
Burn, baby, burn
Don’t forget the cardio component to your swimsuit season exercise program. Cardio/aerobic exercises burns calories and fat. Alternate cardio with strength training days in your routine. You’ll feel exhilarated, energized, and ready to rock that swimsuit.
At Full Circle Market, we hope you enjoy getting out into nature for plenty of summer fun.
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