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2016 Shape-Up ♥ Term 4 ♥  Week 4

Three exercises as follows:

Each body weight exercise is done for 1 minute, the circuit is repeated 3 times.
Total exercise time is 9 minutes.

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1. Air Squats

 

 

This is an effective exercise for both the beginner and the advanced athlete.

• Stand with your feet a little wider than hip-width apart, your toes turned out slightly and your arms resting at your sides.
• Engage your abdominal muscles and broaden across your chest.
• Start the decent by pushing your backside and hips out and down behind you as if you are sitting down into a chair.
• Using your arms as a counterbalance, reach upward making sure that your knees are tracking directly over your toes (not inward).
• Return to standing with arms back to the side.
• Repeat with rapid speed and good form for the minute.

 

2. Frog Jumps

 

 

• Start in a wide stance squat with finger tips touching the floor
• Keeping your chest up, forcefully push off the ground with the balls of your feet.
• Land on the balls of your feet, and descend gently, softly and rhythmically, avoiding impact on the knees back to the deep squat position.
• Take three frog jumps forward then three frog jumps backward
• Continue for the minute.

Alternatively you can take four leaps forward and run backwards to start repeating for the minute.

 

3. Bear Crunch

 

 

• Start in a tabletop position with your hands directly under your shoulders and your knees directly under your hips.
• Dig your toes into the floor and slightly elevate your knees so they hover just a few inches above the ground.
• Simultaneously rotate your torso to the right and drive your left knee and your right elbow toward each other so they meet in front of your chest.
• Pause, and then return to table top position and repeat for the left side.
• Continue alternating sides for the minute.

Alternatively you and do the Bird-Dog exercise holding for 3 seconds before changing sides.

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Enjoy your workout!

 

Anna