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Back to Basics: Walking Forward Lunge
Skin is in this spring, so before you sport your cute shorts, do a few of these leg toning walking forward lunges.
Here's how to do it:
- Stand upright, feet together, holding two light (5-8 pound) dumbbells at your sides (palms facing in).
- Take a controlled step forward with your left leg.
- Lower hips toward the floor and bend both knees (almost at 90 degree angles). The back knee should come close but never touch the ground.
Back to Basics: Stationary Reverse Lunge
Spring is coming, which means so are shorts and bikinis! Get killer legs with these stationary reverse lunges.
Here is how to do stationary reverse lunges, step by step:
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Lunge Combo: Side Lunge to Curtsy
When I write that Hannah, my trainer at Equinox, is kicking my behind, I mean that she's really working my glutes. No joke. Here is a move she taught me recently; it's highly effective for toning the backside.
Have You Ever Kept a Health Problem Secret Like TLC's T-Boz
Tionne Watkins is better known to most as T-Boz, and a member of the former girl group TLC. Watkins has been extremely open about the fact that she lives with sickle cell anemia, but I was shocked to hear that she secretly battled a deadly brain tumor that led to a risky surgery.
Watkins discovered the grapefruit-size tumor in 2006 and faced the frustrating challenge of trying to find a doctor who would operate on her.
Get Lifted: Glider Side Lunge
If you need a new exercise to add to your strength-training routine that will target your quads, inner thighs, and glutes, check out this fun, yet effective, exercise. You need one of those discs like the Valslide, but if you don't have one, just use the lid of a plastic container and do this move on carpet. Or wear socks and do it on a wood floor.
How Octomom Slimmed Down to 125 Pounds
Whatever your opinion of Nadya Suleman's decision to carry eight babies at once, most can agree that her quick slim-down is rather astonishing. When her octuplets were born nine months ago, Nadya weighed 270 pounds. In the latest issue of Us Weekly, she admitted she packed on the pounds by "eating everything in sight."
Band It: Bicep Curls With Forward Lunges
Bicep curls are an essential strength-training move, but they can become boring after a while. So make them a little more challenging by adding lunges.
Grab a resistance band and keep reading
Lifting Tip: Start at the Bottom and Work Your Way Up
When strength training, there are so many exercises, and so many muscles to work, how do you know where to begin? Start from the bottom of your body and work your way up.
Since your legs are your largest muscle group, these moves require more work than exercises that target your upper body.
Push-Up Variation: Push-Up With Alternating Lunges
You know how I love to mix it up when strength training, and push-up variations are some of my favorites since they're such effective exercises when it comes to strengthening your upper body. Here's another variation for you to give a whirl. It not only works your arms and upper back, but you'll also get a nice stretch in your hips.
Multitasking Move: Side Lunge to Leg Lift
I love strength training moves that work different areas of the body at once, and if you feel the same, this multitasking move has your name on it. It'll strengthen your quads, tone your outer thighs and bum, and work your upper body and back. Not only that, but this dynamic move will also get your heart rate up.
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