Exercise: Cold Press
SqueezeItIn.com GirlsBusy schedule pushing your workout off the list?
Push back with our Cold Press:
This exercise can be done anywhere using a wall or, in this case, a refrigerator.
Place hands against the refrigerator and even with your shoulders. Extend your legs out behind you.
(See photo of SqueezeItIn.com’s Jenny Hein with Elizabeth Marcotte of Let’s Dish!)
Lower body toward the refrigerator, keeping back and legs straight. Push yourself back up to starting position. Remember to engage your core throughout this exercise.
Repeat for 2 sets of 12.
Variation:
Move farther back from the refrigerator to make this exercise a little more challenging.
I love these common sense excersises ! I do have a gym in my basement so I have no excuse but I like being upstairs. I usually will take a walk in the morning or evening but while I am cooking dinner or doing chores around the house I love that I can just remember some of the things you have shown us and just do them. I try and do tummy tucks in my car while I am driving and butt tucks, I will put on some good beat type music and squeeze to the beat. But I never thought to do them while I was cleaning. Love it, thank you so much for sharing with us. I would like to add your link to my web site if that is okay. Have a blessed day, Jeannie
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