Fast Fitness - High Core Strength For The New Year
Friday, January 02, 2009
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
- Hold a straight pushup position. Keep elbows slightly bent, not locked.
- Lift one leg straight out to the side, as if over a bicycle. Hold as long as you can. Jump to switch other leg out to the other side.
- Hold neutral spine throughout (pictured at center). Don't let lower spine or neck droop under your weight (gray shirt second from right). This post shows how - Fast Fitness - Strengthen by Changing Your Plank.
- If Better Abdominal Muscles Are Your New Year's Resolution, Try This
- Change Common Exercises to Get Better Ab Exercise and Stop Back Pain
- Fast Fitness - Strengthen by Changing Your Plank
- Abdominal Muscle Exercise - Better, Different, Not What You Think
- What Does It Look Like to Not Use Abdominal Muscles?
Send your photos or short movies of your successes doing this.
Coming soon - an even more fun and challenging maneuver once you can do this one.
Photo is from my workshop at the 2007 International Black Belt Hall of Fame.
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Labels: abdominal muscles, arm, endurance, fast fitness, leg strength, leg stretch, martial arts, strength
4 Comments:
At Saturday, January 03, 2009 6:54:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
...excellent move......adding it to my exercises
thanks,
ted h.
,,,ps,,,,,,,still running stong..THANK YOU......
At Sunday, January 04, 2009 6:21:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
...what a great move, am adding it
to my exercises.
ted h.
........ps,,,,,,still running strong, THANK YOU
At Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:42:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Jolie,I have found your teaching very useful, thank you so much. I have a problem with my feet though which I can't seem to overcome. I have fallen arches and have had bunions removed. I am trying to form arches myself as you suggest but because my big toes are crooked and short, when I walk most of the pressure falls behind my (long) second toes and consequently I have painful corns/callouses on the soles of my feet (2nd metatarsal area) and a lump under the base of my second toe on the right foot. However hard I try I cannot get my big toe to work normally to push off and land on. Can you help with this? Podiatrists say I must wear arch supports.
Liz
At Monday, September 21, 2009 2:49:00 PM,
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM said…
To Chris, your e-mail arrived about this post, glad that Fitness Fixer helped you mend such terrible injuries. Don't worry - first, this move does not require much flexibility - no more than 90 degrees lift to the leg. For your question about your stretching by standing bent over, putting palms on the floor, it may contribute to your pain, see Sitting Badly Isn't Magically Healthy by Calling It a Hamstring Stretch.
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