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Plank With Leg Raise Tones Butt

February 8, 2010 by myfitnesshut

The plank with leg raise will strengthen your core and tone your butt.   This exercise gives you a good combination to improve your physical health and personal appearance.

       

It is critical that you stabilize and strengthen your core area. A strong core lays the foundation for future strength training. A strong core area will also maximize your extremity (limbs) strength. Failure to adequately strengthen your core area will lead to injuries such as low back pain.   The plank with leg raise is a great core and glute exercise.

1. Start by forming a straight plank with your forearms and feet as the contact points on the ground. Be careful not to bow your back. Contract your core area and glutes.

2. Once the plank is formed, raise one foot off the ground and then return to the starting position.

3. Repeat this movement for the desired repetitions alternating back and forth between legs.

Core training may not be glamorous, but you will reap great benefits by taking the time to do it!  The added leg raise gives you the benefit of helping to shape your butt.

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Shape The Body Of Your Dreams

February 5, 2010 by myfitnesshut

Shape the body of your dreams by being consistent with your weight loss and fat loss program.  This will give you the lean and toned body of your dreams!

                 

Here are some tips to get and keep your dream body:

1. If you want fat loss, weight loss and a lean and toned body then you MUST eat for fat loss! Everyone needs a meal plan! You need to have some sort of idea of what you are going to eat for the day. If you don’t have a meal plan, you might eat anything at any time! If you have a plan, you are more likely to follow it or at least eat similar foods. And, record what you eat in a food journal to hold yourself accountable.

2. Burn more fat by working large muscle groups, not by working out longer! Maximize your time in the gym and get the results you want! The quality of your workouts are better than the quantity of your workouts!

Shorten your weight training workouts to 50 minutes (3 days a week) or less and ramp up the intensity! Doing this will give you more fat burn and calorie burn during and after your workout!

Compound strength exercises (with weights or bodyweight) like squats, deadlift, lunges, standing bentover rows, squat-to curl-to press and bench press are great examples. Full-body core exercises like planks and side planks work well also. Spend less time posing on “mirror exercises” like bicep curls, calf raises and tricep extensions.

3. Do short, intense cardio workouts (about 20 minutes, 3 days a week)! Sprint Intervals or similar cardio exercises activate and shape the bulkier, shapely fast-twitch muscle fibers. This type of cardio will also burn fat and calories like crazy and give you superior heart health!

4. Walk 30 minutes every day, especially on your non-workout days. Walking helps you to keep an active lifestyle.

Consistently do these 4 things and you WILL have the lean and toned body of your dreams!

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Walk Every Day

February 3, 2010 by myfitnesshut

Walking every day will give you a more active lifestyle and make it easier to lose weight, burn fat and stay in shape.  Walking 30 minutes every day has great health benefits too.

                           

Walk and you will make getting fit and staying fit much easier! You don’t have to wait until “your workout” to exercise. You have plenty of opportunities during the day to walk.

Keep your walking/running shoes with you! Walk as much as possible during the day! Take advantage of every opportunity to walk. This one tip should be used all the time. It makes a huge difference in your fitness. When I used to work on The University of Texas campus, it was not unusual for me to walk up to 2 hours in a day going to different departments….and, there are alot of hills here, so that made the exercise that much better. I didn’t think of it as exercise until I stopped working on campus. I soon realized that I had to take more time for “exercise” because I wasn’t walking as much during the day!

Don’t make the mistake of laying around as much as possible. Research proves that your fat-burning enzymes SHUT DOWN when you SIT DOWN! Get up and walk around during the day…keep your metabolism ramped up all day and get more fat loss and calorie burn.

Walk every chance you get!

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“TONE YOUR BODY FOR LIFE OR SPORTS!”

“Exercise is not my life…..exercise makes my life better!”

Her Fitness Hut is featured on EmpowHER, a great health issues website for women!

Check out my other great blogs:

My Fitness Hut Blog  has been recognized by Stanford University Wellsphere as a Top Health Blogger!  Quite an honor coming from that institution!

Sports Fitness Hut Blog has been recognized by Stanford University Wellsphere as the #1 Sports Fitness Blog and NursingDegree.net as one of the Best 100 Health and Nutrition Blogs for Athletes!   The blog has also been named one of the 50 Best Sports Medicine Blogs by Masters In Healthcare!  It is an honor to be recognized by those in the health and academic fields! Afterall, health is number one for everybody—including athletes!

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