Engage the abs and slide your shoulders away from your ears. Press your palms gently onto the back of the chair to turn on the triceps. Starting from your last Liberty Arabesque, lower your left heel (your hips will be slightly open to the right). Take a breath in, then exhale, engaging your thigh and calf, and rise up onto the ball of your left foot, lifting left heel off the floor. Slide the shoulders away from your ears and pull the abdominals in. Try to really engage and reach through the right leg. Your hips will be slightly open to the right. Extend your right leg and lift it into the air. You’ll feel your ribcage knit back together." "You’ll want to inhale through the nose, expanding your ribs laterally, then exhale through pursed lips, as if you were blowing through a straw. "These moves should be performed with great form, precise movements, and the Lithe breathing technique," says Boggi. How to do it: Do the moves in the order they're listed on your right side, then repeat them on your left side. I think of it as part vanity, part therapy." And if standard strength moves make you yawn, keep scrolling: There’s not a single squat, bridge, or single-leg deadlift among them. "The large muscle work also strengthens the back, so it’s functional movement. "These moves elongate and tone the waist, lift the butt, and shape the legs," says Boggi, whose slim-you-quick method uses unique, cheer-based exercises (minus the pom-poms super-enthused grins are optional) to sculpt muscles and burn off fat. If your lower body could also use a little extra love right about now, this exclusive sculpting workout from Lithe Method creator Lauren Boggi can help. Who’s lower body was that!? Thanks to my desk job and hour-long commute, my hips and butt weren’t quite as I remembered them (happy summer to me). Truth: A few months ago, I pulled my shorts out from their hibernation spot in the closet, pulled them on, and… did a double take.
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