If you could work your hips and your core at the same time would you? This exercise will strengthen and tone your hips while utilizing your core to stabilize while you perform the exercise.
Lying on your side on the ball, straighten your top leg.
Lift top leg until it is parallel with the floor.
Lower leg stopping just before your foot touches the floor.
Repeat for 10 -15 repetitions on each leg.
Anytime you have the opportunity to exercise more muscle groups at the same time – do it. You will burn more calories in a shorter amount of time, which in this case will help you shrink those hips faster!
Now of course the truth still remains in that there is no way to ’spot train’ any body part in an effort to burn fat in just that area. What we can do however is target certain muscle groups to strengthen, tone and firm. When a muscle stands up straight, it gives an effect of making you look thinner.
Your core actually runs from your botton rib to the middle of your thighs – 360 degrees around your body.
This quick core workout highlights threee key exercises:
Stability Ball Crunches
Stability Ball Hyperextensions
Stability Ball Knee Tucks
Perform each one of these exercises 10-15 times consecutively, that means with no rest. If you need to recharge after that do so and then get back to it as soon as you can. If you are up for the challenge – continue that exact circuit as many times as you can in 5 minutes.
Word to the wise…if you begin to feel the crunches and knee tucks more in your back than your abs…call it quits because your abs are fried!
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