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5 minutes to a toned tum

If you've only five minutes to do one tummy-tightening move, then do this pilates-inspired exercise...

Posted: 4 March 2011

Lie on your back on a mat, with your arms at your sides and your fingers pointing towards your feet.
Inhale fully, scooping your belly in as you curl your upper body off the mat.
Look towards your belly as you exhale and draw your knees up, one at a time, so that your thighs are at 90 degrees to the floor. Simultaneously lift your stretched arms to shoulder height, palms down.
Inhale fully. Pulse your arms up and down five times. Continue this pattern for ten reps (100 pumps)
Squeeze your knees to your chest, lower your feet to the mat, then lower your upper body, neck and head.

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Ethel Mantey

My tommy have become big with time and unfortunate thing is that i do not eat much and i try not to eat late but my tommy has become big and i need to work on it with some of these exercises that have been shown and i think i want to become i will like to be like one of these flat tommy ladies.

Posted: 14/06/2011 at 17:52

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