Posted: 15. June, 2011
Your scale, your tape measure, your clothes keep telling you that you are too heavy and too wide. You may have selected a diet that’s just right for you, but you do know that the way to get the figure results you want is to accompany your diet with a program of regular exercise. But the very mention of the word “exercise” makes you flinch since it conjures up visions of purchased (but never used) leotards, clean-up showers after perspiration-inducing calisthenics. If this description makes you feel we know you all too well, here is a program of bath-time exercises that may be the answer for you. Think of them as just a good excuse to linger in tub or shower while you dream of an inch or two going down the drain. You’ll actually begin to look forward to them because they are centered on one of the most refreshing, relaxing times of your day.
The exercises suggested here are from a study on physical fitness. Fashion models, actresses, and television personalities often use them when they want to perfect their figures or need training in grace and flexibility. The exercises are simple and easy, but if there is any doubt about your health, see your doctor before you try them. Spend only five or 10 minutes on them at first. Add the new ones you learn each day, and gradually work up to a full half hour. For safety, place a rubber mat in the tub, wear a shower cap so you won’t have to worry about your hair, and, to avoid splashing the floor, don’t fill the tub too full. After a brief floor workout, take to the water, and when you emerge, you will feel younger, slimmer, and healthier.
Before the bath – To reduce and flatten abdomen, lie on back, arms at sides, knees bent. Raise hips off floor, and try to reach your chin with your knees, keeping head on the floor. Do rather slowly.
To slim waist, sit on floor, legs wide apart, and arms out at sides. Now bend forward and try to reach left foot with right hand, then right foot with left hand. Move fast and rhythmically.
In the bath – For a prettier bosom, grab the middle of the wet towel in both hands, bend elbows, and slowly pull towel through hands.
In tub or shower – For firmer upper arms, raise arms up, clench fists, then bend elbows so that forearms are on top of head — first with right arm in front, then with left. Do this 10 times at first, then gradual increase to 20.
For a better bustline, place hands against each other at waist level and, pressing hands strongly, raise arms until they are overhead.
To slim forearms, hold arms straight ahead, squeeze a wet sponge in each hand, and move hands up and down from wrists.
In the tub – To suppress a bulging abdomen, sit, arms forward. Now bend and try to touch toes.
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