2016 Shape-UP: T4 Week 5

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2016 Shape-Up ♥ Term 4 ♥  Week 5

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. Skater Exercise

 

skater

 

  • Start with the weight on your right leg, leap sideways to the left, landing softly with a  bend in your left knee. Making sure that the knee aligns with the foot. In this exercise your aim is to land with stability of the knee.
  • Reverse directions, jumping onto your right leg.
  • Continue for the minute.

 

 

2. Swiss Ball Wood chop

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swis-ball-wood-chop

 

The  swiss ball woodchop is an abdominal exercise focusing on the oblique muscles used in twisting and side bending. It also works the quadratus lumborum (QL).  Weakness in this area can cause  back pain as a result of twisting or lifting on one side. If you do not have a ball use a light box.

  • Stand with the feet wider than shoulder width apart, holding the ball at arms length in front of you.
  • Rotate at the waist and bend the knees and hips, swinging the ball close to the ground by your foot.
  • Reverse this movement, back to the starting position and continue through until the ball is above the opposite shoulder.

 

3. One leg bridge fly

 

bridge-with-a-fly

 

  • Lie face up with knees bent and feet flat, raise one leg.
  • Make a fist or hold a weight in each hand in front of your chest.
  • Lift hips so body forms a straight line from shoulders to knees.
  • Once stable lower the arms out to sides until triceps are parallel to floor but do not touch the floor.
  • Using the chest, biceps and keeping a slight bend in the elbow return the weights/fists to the front of your chest and lower the hips back down to the ground returning to start.
  • Repeat 5- 10 times then change leg and repeat making sure equal repetitions on each leg.

 

Enjoy your workout

 

Anna