(Difficulty: Beginner)
Description:
(Difficulty: Beginner)
Description:
Difficulty: Beginner
Directions:
(Difficulty: Beginner)
Description:
Start a timer for 30 seconds. Try to keep moving for the entire 30 seconds at a comfortable pace.
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(Difficulty: Beginner)
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Start facing a wall or countertop with hands resting on the surface for balance support.
Take a big step out to one side. Bend the knee of the stepping foot as you sit your hips back as if trying to sit in a chair. Keep the opposite leg straight.
Return to the starting position then repeat going to the other side.
Complete 5-10 reps on each side.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Take a big step out to one side. Bend the knee of the stepping foot as you sit your hips back as if trying to sit in a chair. Keep the opposite leg straight.
As you do this, reach with your arm and hand to try and touch the ground on the outside of the foot closest to you. Your trunk will twist as you do this.
Return to the starting position then repeat going to the other side.
Complete 5-10 reps on each side.
(Difficulty: Beginner)
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Lie flat on your back, with knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
Sit up just slightly, so that only your shoulders/upper back are off the ground.
Keep your core tight to reach your right arm to your right heel, and repeat on the opposite side.
Complete 10 reps on each side.
(Difficulty: Beginner)
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Start in a seated position on the floor.
Reach both hands behind your shoulders, with arms straight and knees bent. Raise your hips slightly off the ground in a crab walk position.
From here, kick your right foot in the air, keeping your core tight. Return the foot on the ground, and then repeat on the opposite side.
Repeat for 10 reps on each side.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Start in a half kneeling position with one knee on the ground.
Holding a light weight or object in both hands, start with both arms straight near the leg that is down.
Lift the weight up above your head in a diagonal line, so that it finished above the knee that is in the air.
Lower back to the start.
Repeat 10 times on one side, then switch your knees and complete on the opposite side.
(Difficulty: Beginner)
Description:
Stand with feet just wider than shoulder width, hands positioned at the chest.
Bend your knees and sit your hips back, just like sitting in a chair. Keep your chest tall. Hold at the bottom of the squat for 1-2 seconds, and then stand all the way back up.
Use a countertop of chair for support if needed.
When standing up, extend all the way up on your toes to do a calf raise in between each squat.
Complete 10 reps of each.
