Muscles Worked: Hamstrings and Adductors
Purpose: Strengthen
Form: Lie face down, securing medicine ball between your shoes. Curl the legs to a 90 degree angle and return to the starting point.
Slowly return to the starting position and repeat.
Muscles Worked: Glutes
Purpose: Strengthen
Form: Start on all fours. Keeping one knee bent, use your glutes to raise your leg so that your thigh makes a straight line with your back.
Slowly lower and repeat 10 times on both sides.
Special considerations: If you want this to be more intense you can add weights to your ankle or your lower thigh
Muscles worked: Obliques and Ab’s
Purpose: Strengthen
Form: Lay on your back with your hands supporting your head. Activate your stomach muscles to lift both legs up to a comfortable height. Slow and controlled, lower your legs as low as you can and then bring them back up. Repeat.
Happy New Years to all of you!
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Namaste and all the best in your 2012!