Women Gazette

I know lots of us need to tone our flabby tummy after the Holiday parties. I’m planning to enroll myself again in a nearest gym but I think I will postponed it due to of lack of money resources. I just have to stick with improvised workout at home to maintain my diet and fitness.

I will share to you things I usually do to train my stomach muscle or what they call, the abs. Did you know that abs are so easy to train. Even while breathing, you can train those muscles. Here are some tips, I found around the net: Tighten your stomach muscle always. Breath in, breath out. When breathing in, soften your stomach muscle then tighten when exhaling. You can also train your stomach muscle while jogging by tightening the abs sometimes.

So moving on with the main topic, let’s try to train our muscle while watching TV since this is our favorite pasttime. Of course, the main exercise for abs are crunches. This is the best technique to tone up your abs. Just remember that you have to tighten your stomach muscle as you do this exercise, otherwise it would be useless. You must feel a bit of pain around your stomach after doing this or else it means you didn’t perform the routine correctly (or maybe you need an advance routine).

Alright, I’ll just post some photos instead to make the routine easier to understand. We’ll train your upper, lower and obliques here:

1. The usual crunch or curl up. Unlike the sit-up, when performing a crunch the lower back should not leave the floor. Make sure you’re working the stomach muscle by tightening it when curling up.
2. You can also increase the difficulty of your crunches by using a chair. They call it the stomach crunches midway.
3. Reverse curl up. Same with the first exercise but you’ll be curling up your upper and lower body. This will help you train your lower abdomen.
4. The twisting crunch is performed by lifting one shoulder at a time.This will train your obliques or what they call, the love handles.

Note:

• The difficulty of the crunch can be increased by lying on a declined bench and/or holding a weight on the chest or behind the head.
• Do the routine for twenty counts, three sets. Meaning you will complete 60 counts each routine, rest after 20 counts. Don’t go beyond that counting anymore, you should feel difficulty after 20 counts or else you’re doing it incorrectly. But don’t go lower that count too, or else the routine will be useless again.
• Results won’t show overnight, it will take a month or two to see results so be patient.
• These exercise will be also useless without proper diet.

Hope I shared a good workout for you today. You may also visit Rumi’s site if you’re an exercise starter. She will help and guide you in diet and fitness.

The new year is the time to take our self-improvement resolution seriously. But being serious about self-improvement does not mean taking the fun out of our activities.

Instead of regular cardio and resistance work-outs, sweat it out in street jazz, belly dancing or pole dancing classes. Or maybe it’s time to visit that yoga or pilates center you’ve always wanted to check out. Make sure to include something new to do when planning to get your body back in shape.

And after taking care of your body with each exciting class, make sure to take care of your skin, too. Freshen up with a relaxing warm shower and complete your regimen with the some Skin Firming lotion. Skin Firming lotions gives our skins an irresistibly smooth feel and a more contoured look in just a few weeks. And with continuous use, it reduces cellulite visibility, increases your skin’s moisture content for softer, firmer, and healthier looking skin.

I suggests Jergens skin firming daily toning moisturizer, I’m currently using it and it’s really effective for reducing cellulite. I also tried Nivea but it’s a bit pricey but I love the sweet fragrance of that lotion. You might like to try that if you can afford it. If those two doesn’t fit for you, St. Ives’s Firming Lotion is also a must-try. I used it for a couple of months and it gave me a satisfying result.