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Muffin tops are a problem spot for many people, you know that the fat can be difficult to get rid of. With this fat, it can be difficult to wear jeans , especially  skinny   ones, and you can forget about wearing attractive tops. These  3 waist-whittling moves  to get rid of your muffin top : Standing Twists Place your hands behind your head, elbows out wide and knees slightly bent. Isolate your core making sure your hips don't move. Twist to one side then the other alternating sides. Do 100 reps. Side Bends Stand with your feet hip-distance apart, arms at your sides. As you reach down towards your toes with one arm, lift the other one up towards your waist, placing your hand on your hip. Alternate sides with one arm up, one arm down. Do 100 reps. Jack Knives Lay on the floor or a bench with your legs straight out, arms stretched above your head, toes pointed towards the ceiling. Raise your arms towards your toes as you raise you...

          In  part one   of this article series, we examined a hidden anatomical imbalance in yoga that impacts the health of our shoulders. Although yoga is often described as a completely “balanced” practice, an analysis of asana movements shows this to be not necessarily the case. It turns out that traditional yoga does a very good job of strengthening our bodies' shoulder “pushing” muscles, but fails to strengthen the opposing group of shoulder “pulling” muscles. Yoga is a wonderful activity with a myriad of benefits, and this inherent strength imbalance is not a shortcoming of the discipline in any way—it is simply the nature of a mat-based practice that does not utilize objects that are pulled. The result of this push/pull movement disparity is a functional strength imbalance in many yogis’ shoulders that increases their long-term risk of injury. Although yoga is often described as a completely “balanced” practice, an an...

   BY  KAT HEAGBERG         Whenever I ask my students if there's anything in particular they'd like to work on in class,  pigeon pose   and "core work" are requested most frequently. But while there's generally a certain sense of excited anticipation that accompanies the pigeon requests, I sometimes notice that core work is requested with some resignation, or even dread. Much like eating raw kale or going to bed at a reasonable hour, we hear that core work is good for us, but it doesn't exactly sound like the most exciting way to spend our time. This may be partly because for many people—even in the yoga world—"core work" is code for "crunches" (or worse, sit-ups!), evoking memories of high school fitness tests, sore necks, and a repetitive movement that's, honestly, pretty boring. Still, we believe the "burn" at the end of a marathon crunch session indicates they're "working," and we r...

Mistake #1: Doing Isolated Exercises Doing isolated exercises like bicep curls and tricep kick-backs will NOT get you any significant results. These one-muscle-at-a-time moves simply don't stimulate enough muscle fibers to build lean muscle or expend enough energy to maximize your calorie burn. If you want to build lean muscle while burning fat so you can get serious definition, you need to perform exercises that stimulate as many muscles and expend as much energy as possible at the same time.  EXERCISE 1 BARBELL SQUAT 1 SET OF 8-12 REPS The king of exercises for the lower body, the squat is at the top of the list as one of the best compound exercises. The squat works all the major muscles including your butt, thighs, and calves. The squat will also strengthen your stomach and back muscles since you are using them for balance. EXERCISE 2 DUMBBELL LUNGES 1 SET OF 8-12 REPS Along with squats, lunges rock at ruling lower-body development. Lunges are another excellent multi joi...

by   Tony Nunez, MS   and   Len Kravitz, PhD   on Oct 23, 2015 Suspension exercise combines body weight and anchored, seatbelt-like straps to provide an alternative to free weights and machines. The question on a lot of trainers’ minds is whether these strap-based training systems work as well as more traditional resistance training tools. Though research into this question has been somewhat sparse, studies are starting to paint a picture of effective ways to integrate suspension exercise into a workout program. ( Note:  Suspension Training™ and Suspension Trainer® are trademarked terms owned by TRX®. This article uses the generic terms  suspension exercise  and  suspension exercise device. ) A Brief Overview of Suspension Exercise Suspension straps are usually anchored to a fixed point about 6 feet above the floor or higher. Research studies often call them “labile” straps, denoting their unstable nature. Though suspension ex...